From: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
To: oss-security@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [oss-security] [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse /proc/*/stat correctly
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:47:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y6xzIR9P+a6uaaEx@itl-email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221228152458.6xyksrxunukjrtzx@mutt-hbsd>
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:24:58AM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 04:44:49PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
> > Dominique Martinet writes:
> >
> > > But, really, I just don't see how this can practically be said to be parsable...
> >
> > In its current form it never will be. The solution is to place
> > this variable-length field last. Then you can "cut -d ' ' -f 51-"
> > to get the command+args part (assuming I counted all those fields
> > correctly ...)
> >
> > Of course, this breaks backwards compatability.
>
> It would also break forwards compatibility in the case new fields
> needed to be added.
>
> The only solution would be a libxo-style feature wherein a
> machine-parseable format is exposed by virtue of a file extension.
>
> Examples:
>
> 1. /proc/pid/stats.json
> 2. /proc/pid/stats.xml
> 3. /proc/pid/stats.yaml_shouldnt_be_a_thing
A binary format would be even better. No risk of ambiguity.
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-28 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-22 16:42 [patch] proc.5: tell how to parse /proc/*/stat correctly Alexey Dobriyan
2022-12-22 22:03 ` [oss-security] " Dominique Martinet
2022-12-22 23:21 ` Solar Designer
2022-12-23 0:15 ` Dominique Martinet
2022-12-23 0:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-28 0:44 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2022-12-28 1:50 ` Tavis Ormandy
2022-12-30 20:15 ` Jakub Wilk
2022-12-28 15:24 ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 15:31 ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 16:47 ` Demi Marie Obenour [this message]
2022-12-28 17:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-28 17:25 ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 18:02 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-12-28 18:36 ` John Helmert III
2022-12-28 19:24 ` Shawn Webb
2022-12-28 19:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-28 22:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-12-29 0:33 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2022-12-31 16:31 ` David Laight
2022-12-31 17:27 ` Solar Designer
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