On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 20:57:49 +0200, Adam ENDRODI wrote: > I've got an idea and I'd like to know your opinion about the > possible caveats. I want to implement a mechanism by which > the system administrator could alter the various properties > like its uid, gid, resource limitations, root and current > working directory of an already running process. I imagined > a procfs interface (under /proc/<pid>) to achieve this. [snap] > > Could you please comment my idea, so that I would know how > realistic it is and if it is worth the effort. It seems doable, though it's a LOT of work. Could you suggest a problem that this would solve (and can't be reasonably solved in an easier way)? Whether it's worth the effort really depends on what it would be used for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
