linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ptrace

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Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:00:33 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace_signal subroutine

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:44:38PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> This breaks out the ptrace handling from get_signal_to_deliver
> into a new subroutine.  The actual code there doesn't change, and
> it gets inlined into nearly identical compiled code.  This makes
> the function substantially shorter and thus easier to read, and
> it nicely isolates the ptrace magic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>

Nice clean up.

cheers, Kyle
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