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In common setups ptrace rights aren't highly privileged, the normal situation is that users can ptrace their own processes. To be clear, I'm just adding a bit
by caf 9y ago
In common setups ptrace rights aren't highly privileged, the normal situation is that users can ptrace their own processes.
To be clear, I'm just adding a bit of context around why a page in a read-only mapping is COWed when these debugging interfaces are used to write to it, rather than failing with an exception. The bug existed in the handling of this edge-case.