Re: O_NOLINK for open()

Goswin von Brederlow
2007-09-14T16:38:20Z

Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> writes:

> My (limited) understanding of ptrace is that a parent-child
> relationship is needed between the tracing process and the traced
> process (at least that's what I gather from the man page). This
> does give cause for concern, and I might have to see what can be
> done to alleviate this concern. I fully realize that making this
> design completely unassilable is a fools errand, but closing off
> as many attack vectors as possible seems prudent.

No relationship needed:

strace -p <pid>

MfG
Goswin