linux-kernel - Re: ptracee data structures cleanup

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Message-Id: <20090423064122.99BC3FC3C7@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ptracee data structures cleanup

> Blackfin was based on m68knommu, so it is most likely unused by us.
> the only ptrace consumers are gdb(server) and strace and neither use
> it afaik.

These are not user-visible bits, just implementation cruft in the kernel.
If no arch code in the kernel really does anything with the bit, that is
all there is to it.


Thanks,
Roland
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