In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Ehrhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1.) If I'm not mistaken switch_to changes current->flags without >atomic operations and without any locks and sys_ptrace changes >child->flags only protected by the big kernel lock. ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no locking issues - we've synchronized on a much higher level than a spinlock or semaphore. That said, it does look like 2.2.x has a real bug, and maybe the ptrace task stopping sycnhronization is broken.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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