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From: Ramkumar Chinchani <rc27@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Ptracing each other
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How does make such a distinction inside the kernel? Is it possible to
identify trace events in a trace and just ignore them?

-Ram

==> Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>/7:01pm/Apr 3, 2002 <==

[Ramkumar Chinchani wrote:
[> The requirement is that I have a theoretical framework where no process
[> trusts the other. So they watch (trace) each process.
[
[Sure.
[
[All you have to do is patch the OS to lie to you about not
[seeing trace events in a trace...
[
[-- Terry
[


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