Re: upstream/utrace: copy_process() TIF_SINGLESTEP

2009-11-02 Thread Roland McGrath
You are right. I added step-fork to ptrace-tests for this. The place that should do this is arch/*:copy_thread. TIF_* bits are arch implementation details. x86 and powerpc both have a TIF_SINGLESTEP that should be cleared, and others might too. Each arch maintainer should check if their

upstream/utrace: copy_process() TIF_SINGLESTEP

2009-11-01 Thread Oleg Nesterov
shouldn't copy_process() do clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP) ? I'll recheck this, but looks like both upstream and utrace-ptrace should do this. Otherwise, the new child can start with TIF_SINGLESTEP copied from parent's ti-flags. This looks just wrong, but if we do not auto-attach