Re: [PATCH] x86/ptrace: Remove questionable TS_COMPAT usage in ptrace

From: Pedro Alves
Date: Sat Jun 18 2016 - 10:41:32 EST


On 06/18/2016 02:55 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> This hunk being mentioned in this thread a couple years ago too:
>
> https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-04/msg00095.html
>
> Please don't break this use case ( and fix the one reported in
> that thread :-) ).

BTW, there was a follow up v2 patch to that last url, here:

[PATCH v2] Fix get ERESTARTSYS with m32 in x86_64 when debug by GDB
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-05/msg00004.html

(for some reason, I can only find the ping on the lkml, not the
original post, though it was apparently CCed.)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves