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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: ptrace: don't abuse PT_PTRACED
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> Thanks, applied. Even though I'm wondering why tracehook_consider_fatal_signal
> has a signal parameter and doesn't do anything with it.
> Is that something that will change with utrace?

It doesn't change with utrace of today.  But it gives enough information
for future tracing implementations to change that logic without rejiggering
all the arch code.


Thanks,
Roland