linux-kernel - Re: ptrace bugs and related problems

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Message-Id: <20060727.001911.38414164.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:19:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	acahalan@...il.com
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, ak@...e.de,
	mingo@...e.hu, arjan@...radead.org, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, roland@...hat.com
Subject: Re: ptrace bugs and related problems

From: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:55:17 -0400

> Writing a reliable debugger with ptrace on Linux is absurdly painful.

This is why people like Roland are working on utrace, it seems to
provide ways to deal with most of the limitations you mention,
especially the signal ones.
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