Actually, I think that a better implementation of getrusage would be the following one, but it requires a (new) third parameter. That's why I didn't suggest it... Many thanks, Claudio Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor@xxxxxxxxx> asmlinkage long sys_getrusage(int who, struct rusage __user *ru, pid_t pid) { struct rusage r; struct task_struct* tsk = current; if ((pid < 0) || ((who != RUSAGE_SELF) && (who != RUSAGE_CHILDREN))) return -EINVAL; read_lock(&tasklist_lock); if (pid > 0) { tsk = find_task_by_pid(pid); if (tsk == NULL) goto bad; if (((current->uid != tsk->euid) || (current->uid != tsk->suid) || (current->uid != tsk->uid) || (current->gid != tsk->egid) || (current->gid != tsk->sgid) || (current->gid != tsk->gid)) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE)) goto bad; } k_getrusage(tsk, who, &r); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); return copy_to_user(ru, &r, sizeof(r)) ? -EFAULT : 0; bad: read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); return tsk ? -EPERM : -EINVAL; } -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/