PSARC 2009/271 Credential Process Groups (CPGS)

[Garrett D'Amore]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:36:36PM +1000, Boyd Adamson wrote:
>   
>> I don't see any mention in the case materials of new fields for ps.
>>
>> Personally, I'd really like to see something like -o cpg
>>     
>
> The problem with ps(1) is that it produces column-oriented output, and
> it has to prevent the columns from running on, into each other or the
> right margin.  Displaying CPGs would be difficult.  Advice?
>   
I concur with Nico here... I think that displaying CPGs would be 
"difficult" here. "ps" is not intended to be able to display all 
information about a process... although it does print a *lot* of 
information. For example, you can not display saved, effective, and real 
UIDs and GIDs associated with a process, with "ps". For that kind of 
more complete information, you need "pcred". While "ps" does display the 
single most relevant (current) value for the process, it would be harder 
to do this for CPGs because there is no CPG that is more relevant than 
any other.

-- Garrett