From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757252Ab1AMQEC (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:04:02 -0500 Received: from host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net ([89.250.240.48]:46750 "EHLO host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757156Ab1AMQEA (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:04:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:03:37 +0100 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov , roland@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] ptrace: clean transitions between TASK_STOPPED and TRACED Message-ID: <20110113160337.GA14383@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> References: <1293199257-11255-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1293199257-11255-8-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20110105163542.GA19474@redhat.com> <20110109220504.GA25707@mtj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110109220504.GA25707@mtj.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:05:04 +0100, Tejun Heo wrote: > I think it would be a good idea to document the defined and probably > more importantly undefined aspects of the ptrace behavior somewhere > along with rational and implementation peculiarities. Probably we > should create a file under Documentation and also make sure the ptrace > man page is kept synchronized with and point to it. I tried so some years ago with: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/PTRACE?cvsroot=systemtap but it describes more just basics, still IIRC surprising to me that time. Regards, Jan