linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] ptrace: clean transitions between TASK

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Message-ID: <20110113160337.GA14383@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:03:37 +0100
From:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, roland@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] ptrace: clean transitions between TASK_STOPPED and
 TRACED

On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:05:04 +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea to document the defined and probably
> more importantly undefined aspects of the ptrace behavior somewhere
> along with rational and implementation peculiarities.  Probably we
> should create a file under Documentation and also make sure the ptrace
> man page is kept synchronized with and point to it.

I tried so some years ago with:
	http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/PTRACE?cvsroot=systemtap

but it describes more just basics, still IIRC surprising to me that time.


Regards,
Jan
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