Re: ptrace vs /proc

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 19:47:07 EST

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Hi!

> > As far as I could investigate, I didn't find any such interface in linux.
> > Programs like strace do the tracing through ptrace only.
> >
> > Please let me know if you know more about this.
>
> There is no such interface in Linux and currently no plans to develop a
> Solaris-style /proc.

I believe such proc interface is wrong thing to do. ptrace() is really
very *very* special thing, and you don't want it hidden in some kind
of /proc magic.
Pavel

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