[plug] Untraceable Process. Sys-Op Challenge

[Andrew Furey]

> I was about to ask whether this is doable with a child perl script
> without the /usr/bin/perl binary supporting it, but then I realised
> that it doesn't actually need to be a perl script at all. If this is
> the way he's doing it, you can't trust anything in the /proc output -
> odds are it's a compiled C program somewhere in his home directory.

Just another thought I had... what's the output of "lsof | grep
[pid]"? Mind you, it might be fakeable too...

Andrew

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