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On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:24:36PM -0500, William Cohen wrote:
> Some of the ptrace functions (e.g. ptrace_may_attach in perfmon_syscall.c) 
> being used in the perfmon kernel patches will go away with the utrace 
> patches: http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace/

At least for ptrace_may_attach that's not true in the lastest version
from Roland - in fact it's the last unconditional function in ptrace.c
in that version.  I suggested to him to rename and move it in my review,
though.