13 Sep
2011
13 Sep
'11
10:27 p.m.
On 12/09/2011 03:37, Devin Reade wrote:
Getting back to the original question, it is a feature of mysql (not of CentOS per se), but there's nothing that stops other (C) programs from doing something similar. Shortly after startup, a programmer can set things up so that command line arguments (or in this case one of them) is hidden from anyone from viewing the process table.
You can even do this in something like Perl, here you just modify '$0'.
John.
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