Re: [PATCH 2/4] ptrace children revamp

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Thu Jul 17 2008 - 03:38:02 EST


> hm, copying this code didn't do much to improve the world.
>
> Is there any prospect of "fixing" this somehow?

Yes. After this settles, it will become tractable to change the whole
locking plan for ptrace so we don't have this problem and get rid of this
kludge altogether.


Thanks,
Roland
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