On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > like returning a fd to poll() on ? :-) Well, there's the possibility of async polling (rather than the synchronous wait that ptrace forces now), but there are other advantages to having a "connection" model - like not having to look up the child process every time like ptrace does now. Although 'find_task_by_vpid()' is probably cheap enough that nobody really cares. We do a fair job at those hash tables. Linus -- 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
