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Re:Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement by jrockway on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @12:21PM (#1161920)
This has been the case since they implemented PT_DENY_ATTACH. Revolutionaries that throw hammers at screens do not artificially limit their operating system.
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Re:Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement by whalesalad on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @03:39PM (#1162457)
For those of us nubs who don't know what PT_DENY_ATTACH is, I did a little bit of research and have come to this conclusion:

It's a flag that prevents a debugger from attaching itself to the process, aka preventing gdb from attaching to iTunes.

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Re:Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement by s3graham on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @04:39PM (#1162608)
I believe more importantly when people got all huffy about it was disallowing dtrace to attach.
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