SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?

Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosowski at nist.gov
Mon Apr 9 20:11:05 UTC 2012


On 04/09/2012 06:08 AM, Matej Cepl wrote:

> Without getting into this discussion much, I would just note a bit of
> shocking news for you ... I am afraid you are not an ordinary Fedora
> user. If abrt/breakpad/etc. works as they should, then I don't think
> majority of Fedora users have any reason why to pull out gdb at all.

It's not just gdb: I use strace when applications have mysterious 
runtime problems of the type that outputs "configuration error" but 
doesn't say which file it is looking for or reading. Such introspection 
is one of the principal reasons Linux works better than the alternatives.


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