Re: Fix ptrace self-attach rule

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> I think this does affect some real programs out there.  I'm not advocating
> using ptrace on other threads in your thread group, but people have been
> doing it.  We know because that's how some of the pathological cases have
> come up that we've had to do fixes for.  Ruling it out may make these
> people unhappy, though I hope that we will have better ways for them to do
> whatever it is they really need.  Just FYI.

Ok, thanks. Let's see who hollers.

		Linus
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