Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ls -l /proc/1/exe -> Permission denied | From | Joakim Tjernlund <> | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:05:32 +0200 |
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Joakim Tjernlund/Transmode wrote on 2014/07/18 15:49:17: > > Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote on 2014/07/18 14:58:30: > > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Joakim Tjernlund > > <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se> wrote: > > > Trying to real /proc/<pid>/exe I noticed I could not read links not > > > belonging to my user such as: > > > jocke > ls -l /proc/1/exe > > > ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/1/exe: Permission denied > > > > > > Is this expected? > > > > Why do you think this is unexpected?
> It only shows the full path to the executable, compare with comm which shows basename(app). > > I have an idea for qemu-user which needs to identify which processes > are running /usr/bin/qemu-<arch> and which are not so it knows how > to munge different /proc/ files.
Just to be clear, I expect to read where /proc/1/exe points, not the contents of the file pointed to.
It seems that any and all symlinks are forbidden: > ls -l /proc/1 ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/1/cwd: Permission denied ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/1/root: Permission denied ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/1/exe: Permission denied
Jocke
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