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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:20:18 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ptrace changes for v3.1
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(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.