On Fri 2010-01-22 08:43:18, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:51:39 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli said: > > > FWIW, Oleg's implementation of ptrace over utrace is 100% compatible > > with legacy ptrace; gdb testsuite indicates that > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/21/98). > > No, that only proves it's compatible enough for gdb to not care. The problem > is all those *other* packages that abuse ptrace in totally crackhead ways. > > (No, I can't name them - but ptrace is the sort of interface that almost > encourages its use for things somewhere between crackhead and mad-scientist, > so they're almost certainly out there.. WAY out there.. :) strace, subterfugue, ltrace, ...? Plus various homegrown sandboxing tools... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
