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> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ptracing each other Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0204031947100.18892-100000@tarantula.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20020404095514.A6743@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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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: [ [> 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 [ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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