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Martin Baulig
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@@ -38,4 +38,10 @@ often are setgid kmem or setuid root. Usually, they're also very specific to
the system they're written for and not easily portable to other systems without the system they're written for and not easily portable to other systems without
a lot of work. a lot of work.
This, of cause, becomes a problem for graphical tools like @code{gtop} - making
a GTK+ program setgid or even setuid would be a security hole as big as you can
drive the entire X11 source code through. For the GNOME project, we also needed
some kind of library which provides all the required information in a portable
since there's more than just one single program that wants to use them - for
instance @code{gtop} and the @code{multiload}, @code{cpumemusage} and
@code{netload} panel applets.