It's a tragedy that ptrace is being portrayed as anything other than an entirely regrettable artifact of history. It's a terrible, terrible interface -- one of

It's a tragedy that ptrace is being portrayed as anything other than an entirely regrettable artifact of history. It's a terrible, terrible interface -- one of the worst in all of Unix, really (and yes, I understand the gravity of that claim). This is reminding me that I really need to write that blog post that excoriates ptrace -- and explain how frustrations with ptrace informed the development of /proc[1][2]. [1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2004/06/25/a-brief-history-of-proc/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2004/06/25/a-brief-history-... [2] http://illumos.org/man/4/proc http://illumos.org/man/4/proc