[RFC] ptrace: system call number interpretation during PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL request handling

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:30:27PM +0300, Volodymyr G. Lukiianyk wrote:
>> I've encountered a problem while running strace on the kernel with
>> CONFIG_AEABI not set. This problem can be worked around in userspace,
>> but it looks like the correct place for a fix is the kernel.
>
> I'm really nervous about this.  I need to check what my own strace
> patches do - and if they don't suffer from this problem I'd say that
> the bug lies in userspace.

Any results? Do we need to workaround it in user space or it will be
fixed in kernel?

> Yes, for a long time I've had patches to strace to add proper ARM
> support and fix a load of issues with it, but I've never been able
> to get them integrated into strace itself.
>
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