linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] ptrace changes for v3.1

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Message-Id: <20110722110952.fd37cb00.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:09:52 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ptrace changes for v3.1

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:03:12 -0400 Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:32:37PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > 	- f701e5b7 "connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers" is
> > 	  a bit off-topic, it was routed via ptrace branch because it textually
> > 	  depends on the changes in tracehook/ptrace_attach code.
> 
> Please do not actually add anything to the connector code.  It's a
> horrible interface and users should migrate away from it.

and migrate to  <what>, please??

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~Randy
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