linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 210655] ptrace.2: documentation is incorrect about access checking threads in same thread group

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Message-ID: <20201216073415.GA19511@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:34:16 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@...il.com>,
        Ted Estes <ted@...twarecrafters.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Markus Gutschke <markus@...gle.com>,
        Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
        Andreas Hobein <ah2@...air.de>
Subject: Re: [Bug 210655] ptrace.2: documentation is incorrect about access
 checking threads in same thread group

On 12/15, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:48 PM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
> <alx.manpages@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > 1) Remove that paragraph, as if that behavior had never existed.
> 
> If it's been 15 years since that paragraph was relevant, I think just
> removing it is the right thing to do.

Agreed.

Oleg.