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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 02:47:07 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Robert Love <rml@ufl.edu>
Cc: Pradeep Padala <ppadala@cise.ufl.edu>,
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Subject: Re: ptrace vs /proc
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Hi!

> > As far as I could investigate, I didn't find any such interface in linux. 
> > Programs like strace do the tracing through ptrace only.
> > 
> > Please let me know if you know more about this.
> 
> There is no such interface in Linux and currently no plans to develop a
> Solaris-style /proc.

I believe such proc interface is wrong thing to do. ptrace() is really
very *very* special thing, and you don't want it hidden in some kind
of /proc magic.
									Pavel
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