Android's been >= 2.6 forever so we won't notice. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 15 Feb 2015 15:47, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: >>> Do you think it's time to assume that PTRACE_SETOPTIONS and >>> PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD|PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC|PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE are >>> universally available and working? >>> >>> If yes, then all code that supports post-execve SIGTRAP and implements >>> fork/vfork/clone->CLONE_PTRACE substitution could be removed. >>> >>> The question essentially means whether new versions of strace >>> should work on linux kernels older than v2.5.46 >>> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/11/4/213)? >> >> i think the # of people realistically using <=2.4 nowadays is beyond carrying >> about, especially wrt downloading & building recent software. mainstream >> projects (like glibc) have been requiring linux-2.6 for years now. >> >> so if dropping this code provides a nice clean up, and you're merely >> requiring >> linux-2.6, then i say go for it. > > +1 . I still see 2.4 but oh-so rarely and folks still running on 2.4 > are likely to be happy with the current (or often much older) strace > version. > > -- > Cordially > Philippe Ombredanne > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Strace-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
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