Re: error in arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c (subtle)

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 15:01:16 EDT

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In article <20000902155021.51C9E4917@pornstar.not.very.secure.org>,
Silvio Cesare <silvio@big.net.au> wrote:
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>My fix would be to change orig_eax to -1 if the eip register is modified.
>Thus the signal handling code wouldnt think it needed to restart any syscalls.
>This is untested code btw.

Looks like a good fix to me..

Linus
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