Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process(update)

[Eric W. Biederman]

Wieland Gmeiner <e8607062@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> (This resembles the behaviour of the ptrace system call.)

ptrace does not solve this problem because?

If you can do this now without a syscall why do you need
a syscall to optimize this code path?

Eric
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