Creating a process without listing in ps -aux

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Paulo Sampaio <
paulo.vicente.neto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Y
> ou could name your process something that looks like a common process,
> like /bin/dash, looks like /bin/bash.
>
> This is great Paulo sampaio !

> Mixed in lots of process it becomes hard to see just one different letter.
>
> Atenciosamente,
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> *Paulo Sampaio**
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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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