Em dom 30 mar 2014, às 10:12:11, Thomas Lübking escreveu: > On Sonntag, 30. März 2014 00:07:15 CEST, Martin Klapetek wrote: > > However many distros disable gdb attach to running processes by default; > > you have to either be root or echo 1 somewhere in /proc (for which you > > also > > need to be root). > > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
I'd never heard of Yama. It stands to reason that most distros do not have it, which in turn means most distros allow attaching. And I guess most developers will enable the tracing feature so they can attach and debug processes. > On top of this, one could also have ksmserver PTRACE_ATTACH/SEIZE itself (at > least on linux that used to be a singleton feature), but root access more > or less implies "game over" in this context (you could simply replace > ksmserver or the greeter app with a "fixed" variant and wait for the next > incident) Usually, root access and same-user access imply game-over. Which is why I think this feature should be allowed in. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358