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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19:48:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Ramkumar Chinchani <rc27@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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Subject: Re: Ptracing each other
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Can two processes track each other through the proc file system then?

I want a scenario where process P1 and P2 track each others execution.

Is this possible at all?

Thanks.

-Ram

==> Tim J. Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>/9:55am/Apr 4, 2002 <==

[On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:20:13PM -0500, Ramkumar Chinchani wrote:
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[> What are the pitfalls in two processes ptracing each other?
[>
[> Are there possibilities of deadlocks?
[
[Yes.
[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/29741
[Last time I checked, both -STABLE and -CURRENT are affected by this bug.
[
[
[Tim
[


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