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

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Message-ID: <20100125170254.GB22862@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:02:54 -0500
From:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>, tytso@....edu,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	utrace-devel@...hat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

Hi -

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:52:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> [...]  If somebody extended ptrace in good ways, that's a totally
> different thing. But I think utrace has been over-designed, possibly
> as a result of others coming in and saying "hey, I'd like to use
> that too for xyz". [...]

Earlier, you said that you haven't followed utrace "at all".  Upon
what real information do you infer that it has been over-designed?


- FChE
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