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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: ptrace child after fork?
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 10:18:44 EST
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My copy of the SVID does not say that the trace bit is
inherited across a fork.  The reported behavior is
wrong, or at least a change in traditional UNIX ptrace
semantics.

Ptrace is all wrong anyhow and should be replaced
with the 8th Edition UNIX mechanisms (/dev/proc etc.).