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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2014-08-11 01:31:09 -0400
committerDmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>2014-08-11 17:19:17 +0000
commit6673ac74dc998fe3070276ddb9c242f1f913c944 (patch)
tree6420a430deb9bcf6b74ca1d389a426713b860424
parent6ab2ed119aa46a5accd6d2a952033375169e727a (diff)
downloadstrace-6673ac74dc998fe3070276ddb9c242f1f913c944.tar.gz
set_ptracer_any: add a little documentation
This way I don't have to keep reading up on these options and wondering why the code isn't aborting when the call fails. * tests/set_ptracer_any.c (main): Note prctl failures are ok.
-rw-r--r--tests/set_ptracer_any.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tests/set_ptracer_any.c b/tests/set_ptracer_any.c
index 7254a07fb..dbd533725 100644
--- a/tests/set_ptracer_any.c
+++ b/tests/set_ptracer_any.c
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (argc < 2)
return 99;
#if defined HAVE_PRCTL && defined PR_SET_PTRACER && defined PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY
+ /* Turn off restrictions on tracing if applicable. If the options
+ * aren't available on this system, that's OK too. */
(void) prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY);
#endif
if (write(1, "\n", 1) != 1) {