Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:59:33 -0500 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] lightweight robust futexes: -V1 |
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:14:34PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Why do we need sys_get_robust_list(other task)? > > just for completeness for debuggers - when i added the TLS syscalls > debugging people complained that there was no easy way to query the TLS > settings of a thread. I didnt want to add yet another ptrace op - but > maybe that's the right solution? ptrace is a bit clumsy for things like > this - the task might not be ptrace-able, while querying the list head > is such an easy thing.
If it isn't ptraceable, then why should we need to ask the kernel for a pointer into its memory? Except maybe for attacking it :-)
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