ptrace_event_enabled(9)

💅 ptrace_event_enabled — test whether a ptrace event is enabled 🎀

okay so real talk, this is from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel devs only, no normies allowed), and it's honestly such a little cutie. one function, one question, one bool. she ate and left zero crumbs ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ptrace_event_enabled — literally just testing whether a ptrace event is enabled, that's it, that's the whole gig 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ptrace_event_enabled (struct task_struct *task , int event );

like, give her a task and an event and she hands you back a bool. no drama, no side quests 💖

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• task — the ptracee of interest 👀 like the task you're being nosy about. she's the main character here.
• event — the PTRACE_EVENT_* you wanna test 🌈 so pick your event, bestie.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the whole vibe: you test whether event is enabled for the ptracee task. that's the mission. that's the lore.

she returns true if event is enabled 💚 and false otherwise 💀 no cap, it's that simple. no hidden gotchas, no surprises, she's not gonna play games with you.

ngl it's giving "small function, big responsibility" and i'm obsessed with her for it 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

she does NOT exist in a vacuum, bestie, she runs with a whole friend group in the kernel file ./include/linux/ptrace.h — go say hi to all of them:

• ptrace_may_access(9)
• ptrace_parent(9)
• ptrace_event(9)
• ptrace_event_pid(9)
• ptrace_init_task(9)
• ptrace_release_task(9)
• arch_has_single_step(9)
• user_enable_single_step(9)
• user_disable_single_step(9)
• arch_has_block_step(9)
• user_enable_block_step(9)
• arch_ptrace_stop_needed(9)
• arch_ptrace_stop(9)
• ptrace_report_syscall_permit_entry(9)
• ptrace_report_syscall_exit(9)

like that's a whole group chat of ptrace girlies fr fr 💅

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this one came from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and she's filed under ptrace_event_enabled(9) — go forth and check your ptrace events, bestie, i believe in you 🧚💜