On 15 Feb 2015 15:47, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Do you think it's time to assume that PTRACE_SETOPTIONS and
> PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD|PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC|PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE are
> universally available and working?
> 
> If yes, then all code that supports post-execve SIGTRAP and implements
> fork/vfork/clone->CLONE_PTRACE substitution could be removed.
> 
> The question essentially means whether new versions of strace
> should work on linux kernels older than v2.5.46
> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/11/4/213)?

i think the # of people realistically using <=2.4 nowadays is beyond carrying 
about, especially wrt downloading & building recent software.  mainstream 
projects (like glibc) have been requiring linux-2.6 for years now.

so if dropping this code provides a nice clean up, and you're merely requiring 
linux-2.6, then i say go for it.
-mike

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