Re: [Patch][RFC] fcntl: add ability to stop monitored processes

From: Neil Horman
Date: Mon Jun 13 2005 - 08:52:56 EST


On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:42:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2005-06-12 at 19:10, Neil Horman wrote:
> > How about this? Its the same feature, with an added check in fcntl_dirnotify to
> > ensure that only processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN set can tell processes preforming
>
> Once you are monitoring and sending signals I think its time to ask if
> the interface is in totally the wrong place. Would it not be better if
> it was part of the ptrace interface to the monitored process ?
>

You mean add the ability to monitor directories for changes to the ptrace
interface entirely?

Regards
Neil

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