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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	john.blackwood@ccur.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>,
	bugsy@ccur.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] selective signal ptracing
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:11:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1182039062.26853.111.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070616002615.7c727d75@the-village.bc.nu>

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 00:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am not in favor of any enhancements to the ptrace interface.
> > It is a terrible interface and just needs to die.
> 
> That might make sense if utrace ever looked like it would solve the
> questions about platforms like ARM

What are the issues with arch like ARM ? Also, is there a mail thread or
paper somewhere describing utrace, its interfaces and what's needed to
hook it up on a platform ?

/me mostly missed that train

Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-17  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-15 14:32 [RFC] [PATCH] selective signal ptracing John Blackwood
2007-06-15 19:42 ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-15 23:26   ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 23:39     ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-17  0:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-06-17  1:29       ` Roland McGrath
2007-06-18 13:15         ` Josh Boyer
2007-06-19  1:15           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-16  9:24 Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-18 19:24 John Blackwood

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