linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

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Message-ID: <20100122193923.GB13185@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:39:23 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	ananth@...ibm.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, utrace-devel@...hat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

On 01/22, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>
> 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.. :)

Yes, this is true.

We are trying to test it as much as possible.

Oleg.

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