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Author vstinner
Recipients koobs, pablogsal, vstinner
Date 2019-03-04.15:02:58
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I tested gdb on the buildbot and I got permission errors, at least under my user "haypo":

warning: Could not trace the inferior process.
Error: 
warning: ptrace: Operation not permitted


Logs:

CURRENT-amd64% gdb -args ./python Lib/test/gdb_sample.py
GNU gdb (GDB) 8.2.1 [GDB v8.2.1 for FreeBSD]
(...)
warning: File "/usr/home/haypo/cpython/python-gdb.py" auto-loading has been declined by your `auto-load safe-path' set to "$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load:~/prog/".
To enable execution of this file add
	add-auto-load-safe-path /usr/home/haypo/cpython/python-gdb.py
line to your configuration file "/home/haypo/.gdbinit".
To completely disable this security protection add
	set auto-load safe-path /
line to your configuration file "/home/haypo/.gdbinit".

(...)

(gdb) b builtin_id
Breakpoint 1 at 0x451264: file Python/bltinmodule.c, line 1203.

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/home/haypo/cpython/python Lib/test/gdb_sample.py
warning: Could not trace the inferior process.
Error: 
warning: ptrace: Operation not permitted
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2019-03-04 15:02:58vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, koobs, pablogsal
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