Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:49:48 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: Fix ptrace self-attach rule |
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I think this does affect some real programs out there. I'm not advocating > using ptrace on other threads in your thread group, but people have been > doing it. We know because that's how some of the pathological cases have > come up that we've had to do fixes for. Ruling it out may make these > people unhappy, though I hope that we will have better ways for them to do > whatever it is they really need. Just FYI.
Ok, thanks. Let's see who hollers.
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