Re: [PATCH 4/14] avr32: use generic ptrace_resume code

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Feb 03 2010 - 14:23:45 EST


On 02/03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> I don't think the flag clearing on PTRACE_KILL matters as the process
> is a zombie and almost gone anyway, it's more an artefact of the
> generic implementation that I wanted to mention.

Well, PTRACE_KILL doesn't necessarily kill the tracee. Only if the
tracee reported the signal or syscall, otherwise ->exit_code is
ignored.

OTOH I agree, probably the flag clearing on PTRACE_KILL doesn't
really matter beause PTRACE_KILL shouldn't be used at all.


The whole series looks "obviously good" to me, but of course
this is up to arch maintaners.

Oleg.

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