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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>,
	akpm@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -utrace] Move utrace into task_struct
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:34:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503103449.GB6147@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070502220203.D73D21801A3@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:02:03PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> That's just a workaround for an actual bug that I need to fix.
> You wouldn't really want to do it that way.

It's actuall a very nice and needed simplification.  It gets rid
of an object with subtle life time rules, which is always a good
thing.  The utrace code really needs more patches in the style
of Alexey's as this kind of overengineering is what will cause
hard to debug problems over the long run.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-03 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-02 11:32 [PATCH -utrace] Move utrace into task_struct Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-02 11:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-02 22:02 ` Roland McGrath
2007-05-03 10:34   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-08 14:42     ` Alexey Dobriyan

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