From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ptrace changes for v3.1
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:20:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110722182018.GA18447@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110722180312.GA744@infradead.org>
(add Evgeniy)
On 07/22, 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.
I never understood who can use this interface and for what.
But it has users.
As for this patch. This feature was acked by maintainers,
I do not think I can argue. Fortunately, the patch adds nothing
without CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-22 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-22 17:32 [GIT PULL] ptrace changes for v3.1 Oleg Nesterov
2011-07-22 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-22 18:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-22 18:20 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-07-22 19:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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