Re: Documenting ptrace access mode checking

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 06/21, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Adding Oleg just because he seems to do most of the ptrace related
> maintenance these days.

so I have to admit that I never even tried to actually understand
ptrace_may_access ;)

> We certainly need something that gives a high level view so people
> reading the man page can know what to expect.   If you get down into the
> weeds we run the danger of people beginning to think they can depend
> upon bugs in the implementation.

Personally I agree. I think "man ptrace" shouldn't not tell too much
about kernel internals.

Perhaps Documentation/security/ makes more sense?

Oleg.