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Re: ptrace improvement: PTRACE_O_INHERIT
> However. With or without PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT, the thread can't go away
> until ptracer does do_wait(WEXITED). And until it does do_wait() tkill()
> succeeds even if the tracee is dead/zombie.
That is true except in the case of MT exec (de_thread). The other threads
live in the process at the time when another does exec will be immediately
reaped without the chance for the debugger to see its death report. I
think it's even a race to happen to see the death reports for these. I'm
not managing to see how the immediate reaping happens in the source just
now, though I remember clearly that this is what happens.
Thanks,
Roland