On 05/09/2012 10:14 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >> i like to assume that my code isn't going to be bug free, so the more >> mechanisms i have in place to protect innocent bystanders the better :) >> -mike > > From this pov PTRACE_KILL is safer, I agree ;) Yeah, until you trip on that case where it resumes the process instead of killing it... At that point, it's useless. Since I know Mike likes hacking on GDB so much ;-), FYI, this is exercised by the gdb.base/kill-after-signal.exp test. -- Pedro Alves -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
