Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:27:18 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init |
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> Ptracing of /sbin/init is not allowed. Of course, this is very dangerous, but > may be useful. Introduce the kernel boot parameter to allow this. ... > @@ -803,6 +803,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. > Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init > process. > > + init_ptrace [KNL] Allows to ptrace init. Very dangerous. Don't use. > +
I don't know what ptracing init is good for, and I believe people wanting to do this kind of special stuff can patch their own kernel...
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