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

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Sep 17 16:52:21 EDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:41:43PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill at shutemov.name> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Russell?

I've not really been around much the last three days.

What was the issue again?



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