From: Jared Mauch <jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net> Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:33:37 -0400 (EDT) Should I be able to strace init?arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c:asmlinkage int sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, long addr, long data){ [ ... ] if (pid == 1) /* you may not mess with init */ return -EPERM; [ ... ]}Nope...Later,David S. Millerdavem@caip.rutgers.edu