On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 13:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > meminfo has been around for a very long time and is a convenient and > centralised point for collecting memory data. There will be a large > number of apps/scripts/tools out there which use it. Many of these > won't even be available to us. > > All of which makes it very hard for us to predict how much breakage we > will cause. > > > If we care about (2), we should pass non-zero counters, but imagine some > > default values, which will result in sane processes numbers. But it > > might depend on specific applications, I'm not aware whether (2) is > > real. > > > > > > Other ideas? > > echo "chmod 0400 /proc/meminfo" >> /etc/rc.local How will it help to fix apps' dependencies on meminfo? -- Vasiliy Kulikov http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>