On 01/21, 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. Unfortunately, you are right. The current ptrace (as it is visible from user-space) should stay forever. > Quite frankly, judging my all past history we have ever seen in kernel > interfaces, new an non-portable interfaces simply are never used. The > whole question whether they are nicer or not is entirely immaterial. I have to admit this point looks very reasonable to me. Except, can't resist, ptrace itself is hardly portable. > I'm personally very dubious that there are any merits to utrace that > outweigh the very clear disadvantages: just another layer that adds a new > level of abstraction to the only interface that people actually _use_, > namely ptrace. Of course they can't use other interfaces, we don't have them. And without the new abstraction layer we will never have, I think. Oleg. -- 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
