Does the ability for a process to name its own debugger help any here? It wouldn't do for all applications, but perhaps the standard toolkits could be patched to support it. From the wiki page:
In the case of automatic crash handlers, a crashing process can specficially allow an existing crash handler process to attach on a process-by-process basis using prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, debugger_pid, 0, 0, 0). -- 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/+source/whoopsie-daisy/+bug/1006398/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
