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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:27:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320162718.GA4397@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080316155455.GA20848@tv-sign.ru>


> Ptracing of /sbin/init is not allowed. Of course, this is very dangerous, but
> may be useful. Introduce the kernel boot parameter to allow this.
...
> @@ -803,6 +803,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  			Run specified binary instead of /sbin/init as init
>  			process.
>  
> +	init_ptrace	[KNL] Allows to ptrace init. Very dangerous. Don't use.
> +

I don't know what ptracing init is good for, and I believe people
wanting to do this kind of special stuff can patch their own kernel...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-16 15:54 [PATCH 5/5] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 22:31 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-16 23:17   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-20 16:27 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-03-20 16:57   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-20 23:25     ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-21  1:15       ` Oleg Nesterov

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