Under what conditions would someone set kern_kill_on_dbg_exit=0? (Or, is a system-wide setting sufficient for all uses we'd envision?)

In D30351#681811, @emaste wrote:

Under what conditions would someone set kern_kill_on_dbg_exit=0? (Or, is a system-wide setting sufficient for all uses we'd envision?)

I think this is a useful setting if you

• debug a debugger, and do not want the debuggee to be terminated on debugger crash (if you do want the system to automatically clean after crash, then the current behavior is fine)
• use tools like truss on important live process and do not want that a bug in truss or operator error resulted in killing of the process

I do not see how to make this setting more granular. Making it an option that can be set using ptrace(2) on specific debuggee is practically useless because you need to worry about it in advance.

I would maybe move the sysctl to kern_exit.c and then you can make the knob static instead of a global. I think the change is fine.