Andrew Haley writes:
On 07/18/2012 02:25 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:Not exactly. You said: > Can you explain, then, the "correctly" approach by which an > executable can affirm whether another pid is either running the same > executable, or the post-prelinked version of the same > executable. Anyone who suggests readlinking /proc/self/exe, then > the other /proc/pid/exe, and comparing them sans any hardcoded " > (deleted)" suffix is going to get only howls of laughter, in > response. But that's not a use case. There's no way to know why you want to do this: why you care that another process is running the exact same executable.
Because that's the only process I want to talk to. A form of authentication, which I already explained. More than once.
And we've been over this. Right about now, if history's a guide, some self- appointed expert is going to start wagging his finger, mumbling something about ptrace. And completely missing the point.
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