SPS - a useful replacement for ps(1) (but....)

[Kay Dekker]

In article <121 at hslrswi.UUCP> robert at hslrswi.UUCP (Robert Ward) writes:

>One solution, suggested by Jeffrey Mogul, is to renice sps only for root.
>This also means that sps need not be a setuid program.

*Need* not, admittedly: however, that means that /dev/drum, /dev/mem and
/dev/kmem all need to be generally readable.  And I seem to remember that
that wouldn't be a good idea ... or am I wrong?

							Kay.
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