Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757942AbXFQAMP (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:12:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755239AbXFQAMF (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:12:05 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:34985 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755105AbXFQAME (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:12:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] selective signal ptracing From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Alan Cox Cc: Roland McGrath , john.blackwood@ccur.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , bugsy@ccur.com In-Reply-To: <20070616002615.7c727d75@the-village.bc.nu> References: <4672A2ED.6030401@ccur.com> <20070615194229.AF0984D059F@magilla.localdomain> <20070616002615.7c727d75@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:11:02 +1000 Message-Id: <1182039062.26853.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 845 Lines: 28 On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 00:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:42:29 -0700 (PDT) > Roland McGrath wrote: > > > I am not in favor of any enhancements to the ptrace interface. > > It is a terrible interface and just needs to die. > > That might make sense if utrace ever looked like it would solve the > questions about platforms like ARM What are the issues with arch like ARM ? Also, is there a mail thread or paper somewhere describing utrace, its interfaces and what's needed to hook it up on a platform ? /me mostly missed that train Thanks ! Cheers, Ben. - 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/