Re: [PATCH 1/1] ptrace: Get tracer PID without reliance on the proc FS

[Oleg Nesterov]

Well, I leave this to you and Linus (and other reviewers), but if it was not
clear I too do not really like this feature, that is why I added cc's.

Perhaps it makes sense to discuss the alternatives? Say, a process can have a
please_insert_the_breakpoint_here() function implemented in asm which just does
asm(ret).

Then something like

	#define breakpoint_if_debugging()	\
		asm volatile ("call please_insert_the_breakpoint_here" : ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT);

if the process is ptraced, debugger can insert the breakoint into
please_insert_the_breakpoint_here(). Otherwise breakpoint_if_debugging()
is a cheap nop.

Not that I think this is a good idea, but std::breakpoint_if_debugging()
looks even more strange to me...

Oleg.

On 09/06, Roman Kisel wrote:
>
> All told, let me know if I may proceed with fixing the code as Oleg
> suggested, or this piece should go into the waste basket. I could make
> an argument that providing the way to get the tracer PID only via
> proc FS through parsing text is more like shell/Perl/Python interface
> to the kernel, and for compiled languages could have what's easier in
> that setting (there is an easy syscall for getting PID, and there could
> be code changing the logic on the PID being odd or even for the sake
> of argument).
> 
> >
> >                Linus
> 
> -- 
> Thank you,
> Roman
>