Re: [PATCH 1/1] ptrace: make sure do_wait() won't hang afterPTRACE_ATTACH

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Feb 21 2011 - 11:59:22 EST


Hey,

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:49:08PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > BTW, I plan on separating out all ptrace related stuff into a separate
> > struct as it's not used by most tasks anyway, so I don't think we need
> > to be too concerned about several more fields.
>
> This is funny.
>
> I already did this change (it even had some review on lkml). And it was
> discussed again (on archer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) a couple of days ago. Yes,
> probably we should finally do this. Unfortunately, this complicates the
> attach-to-all-threads request (new feature), but anyway.

Heh, well, I also have a mostly working patch but hey if you already
did it, all the better. :-)

--
tejun
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