Re: [PATCHSET RFC] ptrace,signal: clean transition between STOPPEDand TRACED

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Jan 27 2011 - 10:46:14 EST


On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 06:14:17PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Oh, and for any kind of ptrace changes, please always run the whole
> ptrace-tests suite before and after. That is by no means an exhaustive
> test that you haven't introduced new problems. But if you introduce
> regressions in that suite, it is quite like that you are causing problems
> for existing ptrace users like gdb (even if some tests were racy before,
> if the real-world practical results change, it could be a problem).
>
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/utrace/tests has the pointers.

Alright, will try to do that.

Thanks.

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tejun
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