Creating a process without listing in ps -aux

[Paulo Sampaio]

Y
​ou could name your process something that looks like a common process,
like /bin/dash, looks like /bin/bash.

Mixed in lots of process it becomes hard to see just one different letter.​

Atenciosamente,
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2013/5/14 Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>

> On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 09:14 +0200, Patrick Asselman wrote:
>
> > But whatever you come up with, there is never a guarantee that your
> > process will not be found, because there are many other means of
> > discovering processes ("top" or checking the /proc listing, to name but
> > a few).
>
> On Linux I believe all the process management tools use the information
> in the /proc filesystem to show process information.  You can think of
> ps, top, etc as just convenient front-ends to /proc.  The "proc"
> filesystem is itself just a view into the kernel process table and other
> kernel tables. Given this, you would have to hack the kernel code to
> create an "invisible" process.
>
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