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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 14/14] utrace core
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> SIGCONT can wake up the TASK_STOPPED tracee. I don't think the tracer
> should ever rely on TASK_STOPPED (utrace never does). If the tracer
> needs the "really stopped" tracee we have UTRACE_STOP, and this means
> TASK_TRACED.

Ah, yes.  utrace_control(task,,UTRACE_STOP) while task is in TASK_STOPPED
means turning it into TASK_TRACED.


Thanks,
Roland