If you've ever used Solar Designer's secure-linux series of patches for the Linux kernel, you might have noticed that the /proc privacy patch seems to make many popular programs like w, top, ps, etc very unhappy. This is due to the way libproc, a component of procps, handles /proc/#/stat files that are unreadable. This patch gives libproc the ability to gracefully handle such entries. This patch works on procps 1.2.8 and 1.2.9. Howto: 'zcat procps-1.2.9.slp.gz | patch -p1', then compile and install procps normally.
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