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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init
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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