From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266569AbUHaEuo (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:50:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266543AbUHaEuo (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:50:44 -0400 Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.204]:12687 "EHLO mail4.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266569AbUHaEub (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:50:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:50:28 -0700 Message-Id: <200408310450.i7V4oSoS001901@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup ptrace stops and remove notify_parent In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of Monday, 30 August 2004 21:27:54 -0700 X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus X-Windows: ignorance is our most important resource. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I _looks_ pretty safe, and it's hopefully much less likely to have subtle > bugs and races than our old approach had, but I have a hard time judging. > I assume you ran all your gdb tests on the result? What's your gut feel? My gut feel is that it's pretty safe. I did run all the LTP ptrace programs, and the gdb test suite. (The gdb test suite has failures because of gdb's own issues and perhaps the state of my gdb build, so I can't be totally certain that it has zero new complaints, but I am pretty sure it didn't change the results.) Thanks, Roland