Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751297Ab0AVFVs (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:21:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750997Ab0AVFVr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:21:47 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:42841 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703Ab0AVFVq (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:21:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:51:39 +0530 From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Stephen Rothwell , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Peter Zijlstra , Fr??d??ric Weisbecker , LKML , Steven Rostedt , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , utrace-devel@redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: linux-next: add utrace tree Message-ID: <20100122052139.GA20532@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: ananth@in.ibm.com References: <20100120061551.GB6588@in.ibm.com> <20100120062834.GB12165@elte.hu> <20100120072925.GA11395@elte.hu> <20100121013822.28781960.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100122111747.3c224dfd.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100121163004.8779bd69.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100121163145.7e958c3f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100122005147.GD22003@redhat.com> <20100121170541.7425ff10.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 21 On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:28:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ptrace is a nasty, complex part of the kernel which has a long history > > of problems, but it's all been pretty quiet in there for the the past few > > years. > > More importantly, we're not ever going to get rid of it. FWIW, Oleg's implementation of ptrace over utrace is 100% compatible with legacy ptrace; gdb testsuite indicates that (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/21/98). Ananth -- 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/