This has been the case since they implemented PT_DENY_ATTACH. Revolutionaries th...

whalesalad · on March 2, 2010

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.

s3graham · on March 2, 2010

I believe more importantly when people got all huffy about it was disallowing dtrace to attach.