On Friday 21 November 2008 09:10, Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:01:53PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > The supplementary groups (see setgroups(2) and getgroups(2)) for a > > process can be accessed by "grep ^Groups /proc/PID/status", but it seems > > impossible to display this from ps. > > I don't think it is ps's place to do so. ps doesn't usually do much of > "find me a process that in its list has..", it is generally a 1:1 > relationship "find me a process with UID x".
It's the place of PS to report all the relevant information about a process. > ps also doesn't really have a way of displaying multiple values for > a process in any sensible fashion. The command-line of a process has multiple values. > I really don't think it fits well > within ps. At a stretch it might be a select option but it doesn't work > well with a display option. What program do you think it fits better? > > Currently if you have a process with a supplementary GID of 0 then > > grepping /proc seems to be the only way to discover this fact. > > So, its more you are looking for something that finds any process that > has a supplementary GID of, say, 0? No, I want to know what the supplementary groups of a process are. > To me that would me more like what pgrep/pkill should be doing. Would > that make more sense? Except when I don't want to kill it. > ie pgrep --some-flag <supplementary-gid> would should all pids of > processes that have that supplementary gid. Except for the case where I don't know what supplementary GID the process in question might have. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
