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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] notify_parent cleanup
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
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>  I don't know why notify_parent is an exported symbol at all.

Some leftover, I guess.

>  My inclination would be to remove it as an exported symbol,

I'll unexport it.

> ...
>  Also, why is ptrace_notify exported?

binfmt_aout.c uses it.