Re: ptrace single-stepping change breaks Wine

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 12:19:38 EST




On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > - you couldn't even debug signal handlers, because they were _really_
> > hard to get into unless you knew where they were and put a breakpoint
> > on them.
>
> Ok I see this as being a problem. But I bet it could be fixed
> much simpler without doing all this complicated and likely-to-be-buggy
> popf parsing you added.

And that is _exactly_ what we did.

Guess what broke Wine?

Uhhuh.

Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/