Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:16:58 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] ptrace: kill most tracehooks |
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 04:50:33PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > At this point, tracehooks aren't useful to mainline kernel and mostly > just add an extra layer of obfuscation. Although they have comments, > without actual in-kernel users, it is difficult to tell what are their > assumptions and they're actually trying to achieve. To mainline > kernel, they just aren't worth keeping around. > > This patchset kills most tracehooks which aren't used from arch codes. > The remaining ones will be dealt with with future changes.
Thanks, this makes the whole ptrace interaction a lot more sensible and actually possible to follow.
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