command line shown by ps

[mike at bria.commodore.com]

In an article, scottl at convergent.com (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>This data is kept in the u area for the process at exec(2) time. 
>Most operating systems don't allow a program to write to the u area;
>therefore you cannot change it.

Untrue.  Any process that can read /unix and read and write /dev/kmem
and the swap device can modify the proc table and/or u block of another
process.

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