Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755904AbYCYO7P (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:59:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754770AbYCYO7B (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:59:01 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:47464 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754598AbYCYO7B (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:59:01 -0400 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , ebiederm@xmission.com, xemul@openvz.org, pavel@ucw.cz, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, roland@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init References: <20080323135110.GA294@tv-sign.ru> <20080324152906.dee7b272.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080324225611.GA157@tv-sign.ru> <20080324160819.cea2d921.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87r6dzi0mw.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080325142259.GO2170@one.firstfloor.org> <20080325143544.GP2170@one.firstfloor.org> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:58:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080325143544.GP2170@one.firstfloor.org> (Andi Kleen's message of "Tue\, 25 Mar 2008 15\:35\:44 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 593 Lines: 15 Andi Kleen writes: > Sure, but if the deadlocks can be avoided on the kernel level (just > making sure the children are already reaped) then it would be even > better. Well, if you mean the kernel would do that unconditionally (thus it won't be init's job anymore, ptrace or not) then I can only agree. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- 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/