Re: ptrace, pokerstars and Ubuntu 10.10

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Fox
sible without setuid. For example the linux program 'ping' needs to be a setuid program. I can't see how you could ever implement the Microsoft ICMP API in wine unless wine has setuid. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Michael Fox <415...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > T

ptrace, pokerstars and Ubuntu 10.10

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Fox
Hi all, There's a problem running wine under the new Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick). They have enabled kernel security to prevent processes from using ptrace. This affects any wine programs which use ptrace which is surprisingly common. For example I found this bug because PokerStars wouldn't connect to