Re: [RFC] [PATCH] selective signal ptracing

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sat Jun 16 2007 - 20:12:28 EST


On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 00:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am not in favor of any enhancements to the ptrace interface.
> > It is a terrible interface and just needs to die.
>
> That might make sense if utrace ever looked like it would solve the
> questions about platforms like ARM

What are the issues with arch like ARM ? Also, is there a mail thread or
paper somewhere describing utrace, its interfaces and what's needed to
hook it up on a platform ?

/me mostly missed that train

Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.



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