Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:35:44 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init |
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:30:29PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes: > > > The problem is that you can deadlock if you are not very careful. > > I can damage the system in trillion ways, one more is not a problem > :-)
We don't actually have that many ways for hard deadlocks even as root (short of doing really nasty things on /dev/kmem)
> Hopefully someone will write the details down to enable root to be > very careful.
Sure, but if the deadlocks can be avoided on the kernel level (just making sure the children are already reaped) then it would be even better.
-Andi
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