From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:44:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021220154413.GA17007@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021220102431.A26923@infradead.org>
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:24:31AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:32:41AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > This patch vs 2.5.51 (should apply fine to 2.5.52) adds two new ptrace
> > requests for i386, PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA and PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA.
> > These let another process using ptrace do the equivalent of performing
> > get_thread_area and set_thread_area system calls for another thread.
>
> I don't think ptrace is the right interface for this. Just changed
> the get_thread_area/set_thread_area to take a new first pid_t argument.
>
> Of course you might have to check privilegues if the first argument is
> non-null (i.e. not yourself).
I have to disagree. These are things which you should never do to
another process unless you're ptracing them; get_thread_area with a PID
is not generally useful.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-20 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-20 8:32 PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Roland McGrath
2002-12-20 10:24 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-20 15:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-12-20 17:36 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Linus Torvalds
2002-12-20 15:48 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-20 15:55 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Jakub Jelinek
2002-12-20 16:08 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-20 21:27 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Roland McGrath
2002-12-20 17:42 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Linus Torvalds
2003-01-13 3:51 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Roland McGrath
2003-01-13 4:03 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Linus Torvalds
2003-01-13 5:29 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Roland McGrath
[not found] <3E22B2F0.31397.E719685@localhost>
2003-01-14 3:15 ` PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA Roland McGrath
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