Re: proc hidepid=2 and SGID programs

[Eric W. Biederman]

Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering why I cannot see processes that were started from SGID 
> programs:

I don't have a clue why anyone would want to hide processes, and make
their own lives more difficult.

The check with hidepid is can you ptrace the process.  I expect there
is something with those sgid processes that keeps you from ptracing
them.

Of course if you don't like the silly behavior you can always disable
it.

Eric
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