Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in i386 single step changes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> That test is still wrong... the bit is cleared on the previous line. 
> Is it supposed to be testing something else entirely?

Yeah, it's supposed to be removed.

It was old (and clearly broken) cut-and-paste for a condition that can't
happen any more, namely that "ptrace & PT_TRACED" is not set any more. 
That "stale ptrace bit set" condition hasn't been valid for a long time, 
it just never got removed. Oh, well.

		Linus
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