Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: CLONE_PTRACE implementation incomplete | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 15 Oct 1999 07:45:09 +0200 |
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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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