| From: | "Taral" <taral(at)mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu> |
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| To: | "Bruce Momjian" <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org> |
| Cc: | <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, <brook(at)trillium(dot)NMSU(dot)Edu>, <jwieck(at)debis(dot)com>, <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items |
| Date: | 1998-10-29 17:05:38 |
| Message-ID: | 000201be035e$5a417140$3b291f0a@taral |
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> Wow, that really is strange. Seems like with the -f, it looks in one
> place, as though it knows the child did not exec, so they params must be
> the same, while with no -f, it looks in the proper area. The really
> weird thing is that even the postmaster is called postgres. That is
> bizarre.
Yes. With -f, it looks in the process's argv... without, it looks in the
task struct where only the executable name was stored (no path or anything
else). It's a feature to prevent processes that spoof as something else...
(not very effective, IMHO)
Taral
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