On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:10:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no
> locking issues - we've synchronized on a much higher level than a
> spinlock or semaphore.
This is only true for requests other than PTRACE_ATTACH and
PTRACE_ATTACH is exactly what I'm worried about.
regards Christian
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