On Saturday 18 May 2002 20:40, Jakub Filonik wrote: > Hi, > I was playing with ps on FreeBSD with kern.ps_showallprocs=0 and I was > surprised when I have seen that I may see info about running process, if I > know it's ID After some investigation, the problem seems to be in sysctl_kern_proc function in /sys/kern/kern_proc.c The following patch seems to fix the problem(for freebsd 4.5): diff -dru sys/kern/kern_proc.c sys.new/kern/kern_proc.c --- sys/kern/kern_proc.c Tue May 1 15:39:06 2001 +++ sys.new/kern/kern_proc.c Sat May 18 15:27:57 2002 @@ -453,6 +453,8 @@ return (0); if (!PRISON_CHECK(curproc, p)) return (0); + if ((!ps_showallprocs) && p_trespass(curproc, p)) + return (0); error = sysctl_out_proc(p, req, 0); return (error); } -- Guillaume Pelat