Bug#4523: strace and I/O errors

1996-09-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > Please do not apply Frank Neumann's patch. Hmm, I must have missed something here. > This will break strace on systems where mmap on /proc//mem is > prohibited except to root. (This restriction is part of a security > measure which should be supported, given the histor

Bug#4523: strace and I/O errors

1996-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Please do not apply Frank Neumann's patch. This will break strace on systems where mmap on /proc//mem is prohibited except to root. (This restriction is part of a security measure which should be supported, given the history of horrible security holes with /proc.) Ian.