Re: Ptrace documentation, draft #1

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think resuming from signal delivery trap
>> should be the only place where @data means signo.
>
> Agreed, it would be more clean/simple/understandable.

I think ptrace API never promised that it will be possible
to "create new signal" by passing non-zero data - only
that the already pending signal can be passed, altered
or suppressed. If there *are* cases where "create new signal"
currently works, it's a quirk.

I changed doc to reflect this. If we tighten it up so that we can state
that all such attempts will be ignored, we can update docs.

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vda
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