Re: Flaws in recent Linux kernels

[Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher () Physik Uni-Muenchen DE>]

>         if (current->euid ==0 ) {

Hm. Let me think. ptrace is basically used to dig out problems. From the
philosophical point of view, if root ptraces, the program having problems
will run as root. This is a constellation that one might want to avoid.

It's certainly a good thing to be able to ptrace without being root.

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