• provectus@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    I might be mistaken, but I think kvm stands for kernel virtual machine. Having no /proc, and interacting with sysctl instead sounds more secure, IMO.

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      57 minutes ago

      Some pseudofiles under /proc are only readable by the user running the process, and of course root can read everything. So it’s the standard Unix security model, afaics.

      For example, any process’ command-line arguments are famously visible to everyone, while the environment variables only to the user of the process.