ptrace_traceme(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so welcome to the ptrace_traceme(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💖 — this one is literally the helper for PTRACE_TRACEME, and it's giving tiny-but-important icon energy.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ptrace_traceme (void );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• void — no arguments. not a single one. nada. zero. the void is voiding 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: it performs checks and then sets PT_PTRACED. that's the whole vibe. ✨

Should be used by all ptrace implementations for PTRACE_TRACEME. like, every single one — no skipping, no cap. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./kernel/ptrace.c
• ptracer_access_allowed(9)
• __ptrace_unlink(9)
• ptrace_check_attach(9)

mwah 💋 — this little icon came from ./kernel, dated October 2026. periodt. 🎀