On 09/13/2012 11:03 PM, James Hunt wrote: > This behaviour was verified by reading the kernel source and confirming > the behaviour using a test program. > > Applies to latest git repo. Thanks, James. Applied. Cheers, Michael --- man2/ptrace.2 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2 index c45e569..d051358 100644 --- a/man2/ptrace.2 +++ b/man2/ptrace.2 @@ -1660,6 +1660,9 @@ In Linux kernels before 2.6.26, .BR init (8), the process with PID 1, may not be traced. .LP +A tracees parent continues to be the tracer even if that tracer calls +.BR execve (2). +.LP The layout of the contents of memory and the USER area are quite operating-system- and architecture-specific. The offset supplied, and the data returned, -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
