>>>>> "B" == Debian Bug Tracking System <ow...@bugs.debian.org> writes: B> Regarding #1, this was the story of a daemon that started as root and B> then dropped privileges. Since it started as root, its /proc/<pid> B> files are owned as root and thus aren't readable by lsof when run as B> that user. This is not a bug, this is just how Linux's user permissions B> and proc filesystem work. There's certainly nothing that lsof can do B> about it without running as root.
OK, I hope the man page warns about this. (It probably does, but there are so many caveats there it isn't 100% clear.)
