this is how ptrace works in essence, so if you look in the man pages for that ptrace there's an example. you just ptrace_attach from the parent to the child pid

this is how ptrace works in essence, so if you look in the man pages for that ptrace there's an example. you just ptrace_attach from the parent to the child pid. it couldn't be more straighforward usage of ptrace. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ptrace.2.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ptrace.2.html long ptrace(enum __ptrace_request op, pid_t pid, void addr, void data); . to debug oneself you can try https://gist.github.com/x64-elf-sh42/83393e319ad8280b8704fbe3f499e381 https://gist.github.com/x64-elf-sh42/83393e319ad8280b8704fbe... it prints -1 due to some fail, but it cannot attach GDB to it :P edit 9001: it notes the bash is attached to it which spawned the exe, not sure if that's correct or just buggy btw