PSARC 2009/271 Credential Process Groups (CPGS)

[Garrett D'Amore]

Boyd Adamson wrote:
> On 06/05/2009, at 1:54 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I can see the problem. I can't immediately think of a solution, but an 
> option that selects only processes that belong to a particular CPG (a 
> la -p, -z, -t) may be useful and not too hard

Agreed.

    -- Garrett