On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 11:27:15PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2024-10-16 09:50:41 -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote: > > > On Oct 16, 2024, at 09:47, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty > > > permissive about this, if memory serves. On a Linux box it seems > > > to work for processes owned by yourself even if you're not superuser. > > > > I just tried it on an (admittedly kind of old) Ubuntu system and MacOS > > 14, and it looks like shows everything owned by everyone, even from a > > non-sudoer user. > > On Linux, unprivileged users can only see the environment of their own > processes since a *very* long time ago. Possibly even before Ubuntu even > existed. So I'm somewhat sceptical about that. Some other Unixes were > more permissive. I don't know what camp MacOS falls into. Yes, I thought this was fixed long ago. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com When a patient asks the doctor, "Am I going to die?", he means "Am I going to die soon?"
