[PATCH RFC 0/2] Add linux/ppc64 support for Hotspot serviceability agent to read core files

[Volker Simonis]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/2014 06:20 PM, Maynard Johnson wrote:
>>> If you're running on Debian/Ubuntu it is probably this issue:
>>> >
>>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening#ptrace_Protection
>>> >
>>> > which can be solved by doing:
>>> >
>>> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
>> Yes, that was the issue.  Thanks for the tip!
>
> Good Lord, is that the default on Ubuntu?  Argh.  :-(
>

Yes, all for the sake of security!
Probably we won't be able to invoke gcc without any extra efforts in
the near future and finally the shell will be banned :)

> Andrew.
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