Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761019AbYGQHiB (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:38:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760428AbYGQHeg (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:34:36 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36661 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760637AbYGQHee (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:34:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Andrew Morton X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Linus Torvalds , Oleg Nesterov , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ptrace children revamp In-Reply-To: Andrew Morton's message of Thursday, 17 July 2008 00:30:50 -0700 <20080717003050.87f96ab0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus References: <20080717071141.012BD15411D@magilla.localdomain> <20080717071322.B80F315411D@magilla.localdomain> <20080717003050.87f96ab0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Antipastobozoticataclysm: When George Bush projectile vomits antipasto on the Japanese. Message-Id: <20080717073430.38C9315411D@magilla.localdomain> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 541 Lines: 16 > hm, copying this code didn't do much to improve the world. > > Is there any prospect of "fixing" this somehow? Yes. After this settles, it will become tractable to change the whole locking plan for ptrace so we don't have this problem and get rid of this kludge altogether. Thanks, Roland -- 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/