[Devel] Re: [PATCH -utrace] Move utrace into task_struct

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu May 3 03:34:49 PDT 2007


On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:02:03PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> That's just a workaround for an actual bug that I need to fix.
> You wouldn't really want to do it that way.

It's actuall a very nice and needed simplification.  It gets rid
of an object with subtle life time rules, which is always a good
thing.  The utrace code really needs more patches in the style
of Alexey's as this kind of overengineering is what will cause
hard to debug problems over the long run.




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