On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 10:31, Russell King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are the authors of the ptrace patch aware that, in addition to closing the
> hole, the "fix" also prevents a ptrace-capable task (eg, strace started by
> root) from ptracing user threads?
>
> For example, you can't strace vsftpd processes started from xinetd.
>
> Is this intended behaviour?
Its an unintended side effect, nobody has sent a patch to fix it yet.
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