linux/fs/proc
Eric W. Biederman 87bfbf679f [PATCH] proc: Simplify the ownership rules for /proc
Currently in /proc if the task is dumpable all of files are owned by the tasks
effective users.  Otherwise the files are owned by root.  Unless it is the
/proc/<tgid>/ or /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> directory in that case we always make
the directory owned by the effective user.

However the special case for directories is pointless except as a way to read
the effective user, because the permissions on both of those directories are
world readable, and executable.

/proc/<tgid>/status provides a much better way to read a processes effecitve
userid, so it is silly to try to provide that on the directory.

So this patch simplifies the code by removing a pointless special case and
gets us one step closer to being able to remove the hard coded /proc inode
numbers.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:23 -07:00
..
array.c [PATCH] hrtimers: remove it_real_value calculation from proc/*/stat 2006-03-26 08:57:02 -08:00
base.c [PATCH] proc: Simplify the ownership rules for /proc 2006-06-26 09:58:23 -07:00
generic.c [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode 2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
inode-alloc.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
inode.c [PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format 2006-03-24 07:33:23 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode 2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
kcore.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
kmsg.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore) 2005-06-25 16:24:53 -07:00
mmu.c [PATCH] fix impossible VmallocChunk 2005-05-17 07:59:10 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] output of /proc/maps on nommu systems is incomplete 2005-10-17 17:03:57 -07:00
proc_devtree.c [PATCH] powerpc: Cope with duplicate node & property names in /proc/device-tree 2006-03-28 16:45:23 +11:00
proc_misc.c [PATCH] Simplify proc/devices and fix early termination regression 2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
proc_tty.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
root.c [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount 2006-06-23 07:42:45 -07:00
task_mmu.c [PATCH] smaps: shared fix 2006-03-06 18:40:45 -08:00
task_nommu.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
vmcore.c [PATCH] kdump proc vmcore size oveflow fix 2006-04-11 06:18:42 -07:00