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> On Oct 16, 2024, at 09:47, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I believe it depends on your platform --- some BSDen are pretty
> permissive about this, if memory serves.  On a Linux box it seems
> to work for processes owned by yourself even if you're not superuser.

I just tried it on an (admittedly kind of old) Ubuntu system and MacOS =
14, and it looks like shows everything owned by everyone, even from a =
non-sudoer user.=