kcmp.2: Note about SECURITY_YAMA

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Shawn Landden 2013-11-28 13:42:13 -08:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -187,7 +187,12 @@ is invalid.
Insufficient permission to inspect process resources.
The
.B CAP_SYS_PTRACE
capability is required to inspect processes that you do not own.
capability is required to inspect processes that you do not own. Other
limitations on ptrace apply, such as
.BR CONFIG_SECURITY_YAMA ,
which when /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope is 2 (the default) limits
.BR kcmp()
to child processes.
.TP
.B ESRCH
Process