Re: Froggy status

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Moller
David Smith wrote: I took a quick look at froggy.c (the kernel module). I'm not sure how finished A long, long, way there from--it's still a hacker's sandbox. you consider it, but in general I'm not sure it is paranoid enough. For instance, what happens if there is a error in a client

tracehook is in!

2008-07-28 Thread Roland McGrath
We had a pleasant surprise over the weekend. The tracehook branch was merged in upstream! As of 2.6.26-git18, the generic tracehook patches plus the powerpc and sparc64 arch work are all in. The x86-tracehook branch is in the hands of the x86 arch maintainers and I expect it will get pushed up

Re: utrace doc update, nearing submission(?)

2008-07-28 Thread David Smith
Roland McGrath wrote: I've read through most of the docs (although my eyes certainly glazed over when I got to the tracehook stuff). That stuff is for kernel maintainers, as it says. You don't really need to know. For that part, just checking for typos is all the help it needs. What's

Re: Froggy status

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Moller
David Smith wrote: I took a quick look at froggy.c (the kernel module). I'm not sure how finished you consider it, but in general I'm not sure it is paranoid enough. For instance, what happens if there is a error in a client and it aborts? Just looked into that: when a task crashies the