linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/14] avr32: use generic ptrace

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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:28:35 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>,
	roland@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hskinnemoen@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/14] avr32: use generic ptrace_resume code

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:22:23PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > I don't think the flag clearing on PTRACE_KILL matters as the process
> > is a zombie and almost gone anyway, it's more an artefact of the
> > generic implementation that I wanted to mention.
> 
> Well, PTRACE_KILL doesn't necessarily kill the tracee. Only if the
> tracee reported the signal or syscall, otherwise ->exit_code is
> ignored.
> 
> OTOH I agree, probably the flag clearing on PTRACE_KILL doesn't
> really matter beause PTRACE_KILL shouldn't be used at all.

You're right of course.  When writing the above I somehow had a mental
picture of only the EXIT_ZOMBIE case, but we're not even clearing the
flag in that case.

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