X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:53:04 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Vista + cygwin basics Message-ID: <20080421095304.GU23852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4802CD4D.2030805@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <480A3B4C.2040205@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <480A4B67.7911174B@dessent.net> <480BA842.6010609@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <480C43FC.2FAA58C3@dessent.net> <20080421085001.GR23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <480C59CA.FA9F3864@dessent.net> <480C5BC0.803423F6@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <480C5BC0.803423F6@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Apr 21 02:17, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > Right, I wasn't trying to imply that the location of the shared section > > had anything to do with IL, just explaining why his elevated shell in > > session 1 could see the processes of services in session 0 (i.e. because > > the elevated session 1 could create the shared section in the global > > namespace and read the cygwin process table.) > > Oh wait, I think I see what you're saying: that regardless of IL, the > output of 'ps' depends solely on the Cygwin shared process table and not > being able to open a process object. Yep. The problem is that there isn't one process table, but one process table per session. > But then, ps -W would depend on IL, since that includes non-Cygwin > processes that aren't included in the Cygwin pid table, right? Not IL, afaik. It's all about session isolation. Non-privileged users can't see processes outside of their session. That's also already the case since at least Windows 2K3. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/