On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 01:27 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:28:50PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I don't think normal ptraces get cut on exec, so I'm not sure why this
> > should be different.
>
> They absolutely do, if UID changes. Consider ptracing a shell
> launching a setuid binary.
No, ptraced processes don't change uid on execing a setuid binary.
Which works, but isn't what you want 8(
> For something more closely analogous, consider opening /proc/pid/mem
> on the same shell...
Ah, now I see where you got this from. OK, but can I have a comment
please?
Thanks!
Rusty.
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