Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH -mm 1/1] ptrace: PTRACE_GETFDPIC: fix the unsafe usage of child->mm

[Roland McGrath]

> are you suggesting the FDPIC additions are ill-advised as well ?
> curious how you would have implemented this if that's the case ...

They are certainly not as dismal as the arch PTRACE_PEEKUSR delivering
mm->fields.  But, frankly I don't think ptrace is the right mechanism for
delivering any read-only, process-shared information.  You can use some
/proc/pid/foo for that.  (The "dismal" cases deliver things like
start_code, which is already available in /proc/pid/stat.)


Thanks,
Roland
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