Re: exported shell variables and scope
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Except in the Hurd, which has a msgport utility which can be used to frob
> the process information of any process (assuming the privilege is granted).
> msgport can get/set environment variables, change the root and working
> directory, change the umask or mangle the file descriptor table.
Please do tell me that is not possible unless a process explicitly allows
others to do that to it.. otherwise Hurd will be a complete security
nightmare I fear (ptrace is already bad enough).
Wichert.
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