individual config file

[Brian K. White]

On 12/15/2011 5:47 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:26:35AM -0800):
> | IIRC, it is possible with options in the 'ps' command to see what
> | environment variables are in place in another running process. Could this
> | be used to see what the final environment was in the malfunctioning login?
>
> Never heard of such an option, and it certainly would be non-Unixy
> for user joe to be able to unveil the environment used by tom or
> alice.  I don't think there's even a way for root to do so.
>

gnu ps can show the environment at least on linux
"ps e" or "ps auxwwwe" etc

Also as Ken mentioned the /proc tree includes the env for each process.

sco ps can not
and sco does not have /proc

But I believe it is still possible for a process to see another 
processes environment and for a root owned process to see any processes 
environment. I don't have anything handy to see if gnutools or gwxlibs 
includes /usr/gnu/bin/ps or if it can show environment.

I never did understand why it was necessary or reasonable for a 
processes environment to be public.

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bkw