Re: kern/53800 (ptrace crashes)

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/53800; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        coypu%sdf.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/53800 (ptrace crashes)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:53:54 -0800

 On Dec 19,  9:27am, Martin Husemann wrote:
 } On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 07:15:01AM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
 } >  I'm here because a program that works on other OSes crashes from it.
 } >  https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2018/12/17/msg020594.html
 } 
 } "Works on other OS" does not mean the program is correct (or
 } correctly ported).
 
      To add to this, ptrace(2) is not a POSIX interface, i.e. it
 is not a portable interface (which means that "works on other OS"
 is entirely the wrong criteria to be using).  The big question is,
 why is freeradius using it at all?  The real solution might be to
 rip it out entirely.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from Martin Husemann