Re: [PATCH] ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace_detach()

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue,  1 Feb 2011 21:33:31 -0800 (PST) Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Am unable to work out why you tagged it for backporting.  It fixes some
> > observed bug?  Perhaps a regression?
> 
> No observed bug, only theoretical ones (AFAIK, never even a ginned-up
> synthetic test case has been demonstrated).  Certainly not a regression,
> since it has been this (wrong) way since the dawn of time.  I don't think
> this first change is dangerous for -stable, but I have seen no positive
> rationale for pushing it there.
> 

OK, thanks.  I shall destabilize my copy of this patch.
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