Are the authors of the ptrace patch aware that, in addition to closing the
hole, the "fix" also prevents a ptrace-capable task (eg, strace started by
root) from ptracing user threads?
For example, you can't strace vsftpd processes started from xinetd.
Is this intended behaviour?
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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
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