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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:06:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] ptrace-fix-2.5.33-A1
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> You're right, we just need to clear p->ptrace.  And there was a problem
> with debugged detached tasks.  Ingo, does this look right to you?  It
> passes my testing.  Handle unlinking in release_task instead of at both
> call sites, since they both need it.

your patch works for me - in fact it works better than the one i sent. I
had another (largely unrelated) patch which i suspected to cause hung
unkillable zombies while stracing an application - it turned out that your
patch fixes this artifact as well.

(Linus, please apply Daniel's patch, not mine.)

	Ingo

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