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       Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
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Wieland Gmeiner <e8607062@student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> (This resembles the behaviour of the ptrace system call.)

ptrace does not solve this problem because?

If you can do this now without a syscall why do you need
a syscall to optimize this code path?

Eric