AVC attaching gdb to Mozilla process.

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Wed Apr 28 21:21:34 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 16:29, Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> Note that exe is gdb, not mozilla. How did gdb end up in mozilla_t?

The pid and exe information doesn't necessarily correlate with the
source context; it is just derived from the "current" process.  For
example, if gdb waits on mozilla, there is a mozilla-to-gdb signal check
(typically sigchld when SIGCHLD is the exit signal but other signals are
possible).

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Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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