From: Taral <taral@mail.utexas.edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Bill.Allie@mug.org
Cc: scrappy@hub.org
Cc: brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu
Cc: jwieck@debis.com
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:05:38 -0600
Message-ID: <000201be035e$5a417140$3b291f0a@taral> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810290707.CAA12034@candle.pha.pa.us>
> Wow, that really is strange. Seems like with the -f, it looks in one
> place, as though it knows the child did not exec, so they params must be
> the same, while with no -f, it looks in the proper area. The really
> weird thing is that even the postmaster is called postgres. That is
> bizarre.
Yes. With -f, it looks in the process's argv... without, it looks in the
task struct where only the executable name was stored (no path or anything
else). It's a feature to prevent processes that spoof as something else...
(not very effective, IMHO)
Taral
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