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