Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3a] ptrace: add _ptrace_may_access()

[Roland McGrath]

> Something like the patch below allows the reuse of the locked 
> version of __ptrace_may_access and pushes the int->bool conversion 
> into an inline.

I think it would be cleaner and safe/simple enough to invert the public
ptrace_may_access() to just return the int and invert the ! on all the
callers (all one in fs/proc/task_mmu.c and all four in fs/proc/base.c).


Thanks,
Roland
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