Brent Casavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> My (limited) understanding of ptrace is that a parent-child
> relationship is needed between the tracing process and the traced
> process (at least that's what I gather from the man page).  This
> does give cause for concern, and I might have to see what can be
> done to alleviate this concern.  I fully realize that making this
> design completely unassilable is a fools errand, but closing off
> as many attack vectors as possible seems prudent.

No relationship needed:

strace -p <pid>

MfG
        Goswin
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