Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261341AbVACBL0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:11:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261362AbVACBL0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:11:26 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:32439 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261341AbVACBLX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:11:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:11:09 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Daniel Jacobowitz cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidel@xmailserver.org, mh@codeweavers.com, the3dfxdude@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in i386 single step changes In-Reply-To: <20050102234155.GA29453@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: References: <20050102234155.GA29453@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 724 Lines: 20 On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > That test is still wrong... the bit is cleared on the previous line. > Is it supposed to be testing something else entirely? Yeah, it's supposed to be removed. It was old (and clearly broken) cut-and-paste for a condition that can't happen any more, namely that "ptrace & PT_TRACED" is not set any more. That "stale ptrace bit set" condition hasn't been valid for a long time, it just never got removed. Oh, well. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/