linux-kernel - Re: ptrace bugs and related problems

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Message-ID: <20060801013708.GA25965@nevyn.them.org>
Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:37:08 -0400
From:	Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@...ian.org>
To:	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, ak@...e.de,
	mingo@...e.hu, arjan@...radead.org, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, roland@...hat.com
Subject: Re: ptrace bugs and related problems

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:08:35PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> The execve event is unreliable anyway.
> Thus, it is necessary to use syscall tracing.

You keep saying this "unreliable" thing, and I don't think it means
what you think it means.  It should always be delivered.  When it
isn't, there's a bug.  I don't know of any, unless you're talking about
the thread group issue you just reported.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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