From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030376AbWHABh3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:37:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030388AbWHABh3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:37:29 -0400 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:996 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030376AbWHABh2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:37:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:37:08 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Albert Cahalan Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, ak@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@redhat.com Subject: Re: ptrace bugs and related problems Message-ID: <20060801013708.GA25965@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Albert Cahalan , torvalds@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, ak@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, arjan@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@redhat.com References: <787b0d920607262355x3f669f0ap544e3166be2dca21@mail.gmail.com> <20060727203128.GA26390@nevyn.them.org> <787b0d920607271817u4978d2bdiac261d916971c1b3@mail.gmail.com> <20060728034741.GA3372@nevyn.them.org> <787b0d920607281528w56472db2u81268aad523d5c72@mail.gmail.com> <20060731190018.GA13735@nevyn.them.org> <787b0d920607311708y3642e41cue49cd47ccc39e77d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <787b0d920607311708y3642e41cue49cd47ccc39e77d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:08:35PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > The execve event is unreliable anyway. > Thus, it is necessary to use syscall tracing. You keep saying this "unreliable" thing, and I don't think it means what you think it means. It should always be delivered. When it isn't, there's a bug. I don't know of any, unless you're talking about the thread group issue you just reported. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery