Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:01:14 -0500 | From | Dave McCracken <> | Subject | Re: [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-A6 |
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--On Monday, August 19, 2002 10:59:17 PM +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> this whole mess can only be fixed by decoupling the ptrace() mechanism > from signals and wait4 completely, it's a nasty relationship that infests > both the kernel and userspace code [check out strace.c once to see the > kind of pain it has to go through to isolate ptrace events from other > signals.]
I guess this is why most versions of Unix have abandoned ptrace for a debugging API based on /proc.
Dave
====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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