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Subject: Is CLONE_VM really needed in gdbserver?
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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Hi,

There is a race condition between gdbserver and ld.so on Linux/x86-64:

http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11214

Is CLONE_VM really needed? In general, CLONE_VM is a very bad
idea if there is any symbol lookup in both parent and child processes.

Thanks.


H.J.
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