On 03/25, Roland McGrath wrote:
I also really don't understand the resistance to a new thing in a
new config option that depends on EXPERIMENTAL, and having the
smaller users bang on it and fix it in the tree for a while.
And, just in case...
Without CONFIG_UTRACE, the patch does not change
I think you misunderstood my point. I never advocated the wholesale,
unconditional rewriting of ptrace. A gradual approach there seems a
must - and your approach of CONFIG_UTRACE_PTRACE seems like the way
to go, initially.
Ok, good. I was confused by your focus on the diffstat and your
This kind of info should have been 1) emitted a month ago, in the
middle of the development window, 2) have been part of the
submission ('why do we want it' 'what will be the future benefit?').
Well, we are where we are. I don't really know what kind of lack
you see in having said what its
