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From: Thomas Fischbacher (Thomas.FischbacherPhysik.Uni-Muenchen.DE)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 06:29:41 CDT

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    > 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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