On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:28:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ptrace is a nasty, complex part of the kernel which has a long history > > of problems, but it's all been pretty quiet in there for the the past few > > years. > > More importantly, we're not ever going to get rid of it. FWIW, Oleg's implementation of ptrace over utrace is 100% compatible with legacy ptrace; gdb testsuite indicates that (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/21/98). Ananth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html