Re: Problem: strace -ff fails on 2.4.21-rc1

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net)
Fri, 09 May 2003 14:15:16 +0200

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Ingo Oeser wrote:
>
>
>>SUID binaries cannot be ptrace()d under Linux for security reasons.
>
>
> I just found out minicom is spawing /sbin/lockdev which is setgrp
> 'lock'. Would that cause ptrace failure??

AFAIK that could have caused the failure. Please test 2.4.21-rc2 whcih
has fixes for many ptrace problems.

Carl-Daniel

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