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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:31:38 -0500
From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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--On Monday, August 19, 2002 08:08:10 PM +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
wrote:

> the problem is that the tracing task wants to do a wait4() on all traced
> children, and the only way to get that is to have the traced tasks in the
> child list. Eg. strace -f traces a random number of tasks, and after the
> PTRACE_CONTINUE call, the wait4 done by strace must be able to 'get
> events' from pretty much any of the traced tasks. So unless the ptrace
> interface is reworked in an incompatible way, i cannot see how this would
> work. wait4 could perhaps somehow search the whole tasklist, but that
> could be a pretty big pain even for something like strace.

It seems to me it would be worth adding list_heads in the task struct for
ptraced tasks and ptraced siblings if it gets rid of the reparenting.

Dave McCracken

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Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059

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