Re: ptrace patch fails stress testing

From: Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 14:53:52 EST

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* James Cownie (jcownie@etnus.com) wrote:
>
> We're seeing this 100% reliably with out TotalView debugger, and as
> Alan suggests it happens when trying to make a ptrace call on a zombie
> process.

Yup, I can reliably reproduce this as well. I'm also using the same patch
in is_dumpable().

thanks,
-chris

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