ptrace in production systems

[Valery Reznic]

> 
> The second point is that I don't need advice about how
> it can be done. I can think of three or four ways not
> mentioned here at all. They have disadvantages in relation
> to what I implemented, mostly in how long it takes to figure
> out that the daemon has, indeed, finished, and in how much
> protocol specific changes they would require. I am asking
> for opinion about that one specific way I chose, which works
> beautifully, but is extremely non-standard.
>
OK, you said itself - it's work. The only problem a can think of is that it will be impossible to use gdb/strace on your already ptrace'd agent.

Valery.