Re: CLONE_PTRACE implementation incomplete
Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
15 Oct 1999 07:45:09 +0200
drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) writes:
>
> The idea is to inherit the parent proess (i.e., the one which can
> perform the ptrace() call) from the parent. This would allow the
> information to be propagated down. When the initial process is
> ptraced so are all children and the process which can issue the
> ptrace() call is always te same. This would help making strace and
> gdb and whatever other program suddenly working.
The original CLONE_PTRACE design included CLONE_PPID, but that got
somehow dropped from the patch that finally appeared in the kernel
tree. Mixing the two together is not a good idea IMHO.
-Andi
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