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diff --git a/doc/white-paper.texi b/doc/white-paper.texi index c625a738..cc7beb9a 100644 --- a/doc/white-paper.texi +++ b/doc/white-paper.texi @@ -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 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. |