Re: [PATCH 5/5] ptrace: remove PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL bit

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 06:24:27PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/10, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >
> > PTRACE_SEIZE code is tested and ready for production use,
> > remove the code which requires special bit in data argument
> > to make PTRACE_SEIZE work.
> >
> > Strace team prepares for a new release of strace, and we
> > would like to ship the code which uses PTRACE_SEIZE,
> > preferably after this change goes into released kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Personally I agree with this change. PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL complicates
> the testing/development for the user-space.
> 
> Tejun, do you agree?
> 
> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, I was thinking about sending a patch to remove DEVEL flag myself
and other changes seem good to me too.  For the whole series,

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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tejun
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