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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, xemul@openvz.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
	roland@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:56:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080325145607.GQ2170@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080325144753.GA4128@ucw.cz>

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:47:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > I like the general idea -- i used to patch kernels to allow this too,
> > > > but it is dangerous.
> > > 
> > > Though root-only. Root doesn't want to be limited and knows better
> > > anyway. 
> > 
> > The problem is that you can deadlock if you are not very careful.
> 
> How is that different from ptracing any other process with _lot_ of
> children -- like X? You'll get same zombies in both cases, leading to
> same issues, no?

There is no unresolvable deadlock no.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-25 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23 13:51 [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 16:01 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 16:40   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 22:39     ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 23:04       ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 23:09         ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 23:18           ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 23:26             ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-24 23:38               ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-25 12:03         ` Stephen Smalley
2008-03-25 13:40           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-03-25 14:37             ` Stephen Smalley
2008-03-25 18:06               ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]                 ` <20080325180611.GB19176-6s5zFf/epYL1ENwx4SLHqw@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-25 19:07                   ` Herbert Poetzl
2008-03-25 19:07                     ` Herbert Poetzl
2008-03-26 15:47                   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-26 15:47                     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-25 21:55                 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-26 15:31                   ` Andrew Morgan
2008-03-24 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-24 22:56   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 23:08     ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-24 23:29       ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-25 10:00       ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 14:16         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-25 14:22           ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 14:30             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-25 14:35               ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 14:58                 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-25 14:47             ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-25 14:56               ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-03-25 17:42         ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-25 22:00         ` Roland McGrath

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