Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-next: add utrace tree | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:43:18 -0500 |
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:51:39 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli said:
> FWIW, Oleg's implementation of ptrace over utrace is 100% compatible > with legacy ptrace; gdb testsuite indicates that > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/21/98).
No, that only proves it's compatible enough for gdb to not care. The problem is all those *other* packages that abuse ptrace in totally crackhead ways.
(No, I can't name them - but ptrace is the sort of interface that almost encourages its use for things somewhere between crackhead and mad-scientist, so they're almost certainly out there.. WAY out there.. :) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |