On 2012-03-12, Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/10/2012 11:17 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 07:38:27PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>> On 02/09/2012 05:29 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>>>> But I'd like to hear from Denys about PTRACE_SEIZE perspective first.
>>>> We surely won't release PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL code enabled by default because
>>>> the kernel API might change.
>>>
>>> I'm going to ask kernel people to drop PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL.
>>
>> The patch was submitted in February, but current v3.3-rc6-240-gc7b2855
>> still insists on PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL. Is there a prospect to release
>> without PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL any time soon, or should we rather leave this
>> experimental code disabled in the next release?
>
> It's in linux-next git:
>
> commit fe948360bf475b705c021fc9ba8ee3992c5d0d67
> Author: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue Mar 6 11:25:31 2012 +1100
>
> ptrace: remove PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL bit
>
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pedro Alves <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
>
> Looks like this change will go into linux-3.4
Does this mean that the upcoming release of Strace will require Linux
3.4 or newer?
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