Re: [PATCH 11/11] ptrace: implement group stop notification forptracer

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:42:55AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> To clarify on "sticky":
> 
> Does this mean that if tracer userspace won't query PTRACE_GETSIGINFO,
> but will simply do:
> 
>                   waitid(P_PID, tracee, NULL, WSTOPPED);
>                   ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, NULL);
> 
> then kernel will generate INTERRUPT trap again and again
> (without letting tracee run) if job stop state of the tracee has changed?

Correct, it will be in infinite trap loop.

Thanks.

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tejun
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