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

[Horst H. von Brand]

Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
[...]

> To a first approximation, simply auditing the distribution for anything 
> that opens files or reads information from the network and forbidding 
> them ptrace access (and denying ptrace access from any existing confined 
> domains except, maybe, staff_t) seems like it would get us most of the 
> way to option 4 without breaking existing user expectations. What am I 
> missing that makes this infeasible?

That would leave just "Hello, world!" style programs (as long as they
aren't in some way localized, like the GNU version is).
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