> I think this is a potential security problem as someone might easily
> misuse this to hide a 'malicious' program, and you would not be able
> to identify it so easily using ps.
As a follow-up, it seems it is a stupidity on the part of ps (I will send
a report to the ps mantainer shortly) in that ps trusts /proc/pid/cmdline,
ignoring the string in /proc/pid/stat (which is _not_ zeroed).
Thanks, Mark Hahn.
Cheers,
Alex
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