Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:12:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Reproducable readv crash (was Re: 2.1.118 ...) |
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > To judge from the fsck in progress no > > To replicate: > insmod softdog > readv() from /dev/watchdog > > Oops=crash
Fixed.
> Incidentally this showed another bug - strace isn working as root. Probably relatd > to the fact core dumps are still broken as root.
It should work in my current pre-patches already.
What happens is that strace used to refuse to follow suid exec's even if root made them, now it allows that if the tracer has CAP_PTRACE set.
Linus
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