Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)

Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-22T22:42:23Z

Wieland Gmeiner <e8607062@student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> (This resembles the behaviour of the ptrace system call.)

ptrace does not solve this problem because?

If you can do this now without a syscall why do you need
a syscall to optimize this code path?

Eric