linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/10] ptrace: implement PTRACE

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:04:24 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>, indan@....nu,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, bdonlan@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jan.kratochvil@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] ptrace: implement PTRACE_SEIZE

On 06/01, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On a seriouse note, of course you are right, but what we should do?
>
> Have we *ever* gotten a bug-report about these kinds of things from
> actual users?

Yes ;) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705583

> IOW, it may be an annoying issue from a theoretical standpoint, but
> afaik it's not an annoying issue from a practical user standpoint.

Probably...

Oleg.

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