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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
	Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.hackers@mailing.thruhere.net>
Subject: Re: Running a program through gdb without "interfering"
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Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com> writes:
> This won't work.  You can't debug setuid programs (for reasons which
> should be obvious).

Ah, true, but easily fixable.  Add a sysctl for it (just copy-paste the
declaration for kern.sugid_coredump and change the name) and check its
value in p_candebug() (hint: "if (credentialchanged)").

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