I don't think you want a root-run process to run gdb on arbitrary binaries, as I'm not sure how safe running gdb with elevated privileges on arbitrary binaries is.
Also, once the process has been traced, it needs to be protected so the user can't obtain the results, so a rogue process isn't able to bypass the ptrace restrictions by getting the system to do it for him. I'm not quite sure how to handle this for the moment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006398 Title: Bypassing ptrace restrictions for errors from hanging applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1006398/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
