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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: ptrace single-stepping change breaks Wine
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> >  - you couldn't even debug signal handlers, because they were _really_ 
> >    hard to get into unless you knew where they were and put a breakpoint 
> >    on them.
> 
> Ok I see this as being a problem. But I bet it could be fixed
> much simpler without doing all this complicated and likely-to-be-buggy
> popf parsing you added.

And that is _exactly_ what we did.

Guess what broke Wine?

Uhhuh. 

		Linus