From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)"
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Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
Jan Kratochvil
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Subject: Re: ptrace.2: PTRACE_KILL needs a stopped process too
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 22:12:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509201219.GA32051@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAAC706.6000808-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On 05/09, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
> On 05/09/2012 04:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> > probably not that big of a deal, but the reason i like using
> > ptrace(PTRACE_KILL) over a raw kill() is that you are less likely to kill the
> > wrong process by accident. maybe not that big of a deal in practice though.
>
>
> And you can do tgkill instead. It was specifically invented to handle the
> reuse case.
tgkill() can kill the wrong process/thread too, although it lessens the risk.
But I don't really understand the problem. The traced thread can't go away
until the tracer does wait/detach, and thus its pid can't be reused?
May be, "by accident" above means something else, not pid reuse...
Oleg.
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2012-04-22 18:56 ` ptrace.2: PTRACE_KILL needs a stopped process too Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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2012-04-22 20:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120422200459.GA7519-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-02 12:06 ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-09 15:09 ` Mike Frysinger
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2012-05-09 19:35 ` Pedro Alves
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2012-05-09 20:12 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
[not found] ` <20120509201219.GA32051-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 16:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-09 21:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20120509211429.GA2455-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 22:16 ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-09 22:08 ` Pedro Alves
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