Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:39:23 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
       "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       utrace-devel@redhat.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: add utrace tree
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On 01/22, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> No, that only proves it's compatible enough for gdb to not care. The problem
> is all those *other* packages that abuse ptrace in totally crackhead ways.
>
> (No, I can't name them - but ptrace is the sort of interface that almost
> encourages its use for things somewhere between crackhead and mad-scientist,
> so they're almost certainly out there.. WAY out there.. :)

Yes, this is true.

We are trying to test it as much as possible.

Oleg.

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