[PATCH 1/4] ptrace: temporary revert the recent ptrace/jobctl rework

Kyle McMartin kmcmartin at redhat.com
Tue Jun 21 17:05:19 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:25:19PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> I understand. Once again, it was supposed to be a temporary solution
> until fedora switches to 3.1. And the reverted code does not make the
> real difference so far, the user-visible changes are minor.
> 

Yeah, I understand, it just looks bad for us.

> OK, I won't argue. So we need to rework utrace/ptrace in 3.0, then we
> should do this again in 3.1. I'll try to do something.
> 

I don't think worrying about 3.0 is necessary... it won't ship in
anything, and we should be well on our way to 3.1 by the time we branch
F-16 in 5 weeks, focusing effort there seems more sensible. (Rawhide
will be changing awfully rapidly in the mean time anyway.)

--Kyle


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