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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:32:22 -0500
From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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--On Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:36:36 AM +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
wrote:

> in fact we have this already, almost:
> 
> 	if (!list_empty(&current->ptrace_children))
> 
> then block (or return -EAGAIN). Instead of the current -ENOCHLD.

No fair adding new code in the middle of a discussion :)

Seriously, that looks like it solves the problem.

Dave

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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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