From 91fe0e4d044044592e667fd4784edc39fe53bbd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:38:41 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst: fix possessive form of "process" The possessive form of "process" is "process's". Fix up various misdirected attempts at this. Also reflow some paragraphs. Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Wang Yaxin Cc: xu xin Cc: Yang Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 34 ++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 4e06f246407c..09f0aed5a08b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ fixes/update part 1.1 Stefani Seibold June 9 2009 3.11 /proc//patch_state - Livepatch patch operation state 3.12 /proc//arch_status - Task architecture specific information 3.13 /proc//fd - List of symlinks to open files - 3.14 /proc//fd for fast access. ------------------------------------------------------- -3.14 /proc// will be fully invisible to other users. It doesn't mean that it hides a fact whether a process with a specific pid value exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. -by "kill -0 $PID"), but it hides process' uid and gid, which may be learned by +by "kill -0 $PID"), but it hides process's uid and gid, which may be learned by stat()'ing /proc// otherwise. It greatly complicates an intruder's task of gathering information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether -- 2.25.1