Privilege(s) needed to run top command

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Tue Mar 12 00:20:00 GMT 2019


Greetings, Achim Gratz!

> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> (*) That doesn't mean it's not possible.  In theory all Cygwin
>>     processes could be opened to allow everyone
>>     PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION access, which would at least
>>     fill most of /proc/<PID>/stat for foreign processes.
>>     However, we never did that, so it can't have worked yet.

> Could we make it work under the condition that cygserver is running?

cygserver is not necessarily running with localsystem privileges, though, if
I'm not mistaken.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 3:16:37

Sorry for my terrible english...


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