security_ptrace_traceme(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to security_ptrace_traceme(9) — straight out of the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's literally all about whether tracing is allowed 👀✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

security_ptrace_traceme — check if tracing is allowed, and yes that's the whole vibe 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int security_ptrace_traceme (struct task_struct *parent );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • parent — the tracing process, aka the one doing the peeking 👀💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the vibe check here is: before the current process is even allowed to present itself to the parent process for tracing, this function checks that the parent process has, like, sufficient permission to trace the current process. Permission first, presentation later, no cap. 💅✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

Returns 0 if permission is granted — that's the whole return section, bestie, short and iconic 😌👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the see-also section is giving major group-project energy — Kernel file ./security/security.c plus literally the whole security squad, and yes I mean every single one 💀🫶

that's a wrap, bestie 🫶 source/version: ./security · date: October 2026 — mwah, go trace responsibly 💋✨

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