26 Jun
2019
26 Jun
'19
6:40 a.m.
Ptrace was short-lived at Research, appearing in 6th through 8th editions.
/proc was introduced in the 8th. Norman axed it in the 9th.
Norman wrote:
nobody wanted
to update adb and sdb, which were big messes inside. So I did
...
Once I'd done that and shipped the new adb and sdb binaries to
all our machines, I removed the ptrace call from the kernel.
doug