The demise of utracer.

[Chris Moller]

Roland McGrath wrote:
> Sorry to be blunt, Chris.  But I think you're headed down a useless rat hole.
>
> I agree that the usage of /proc you've described is a bad interface.
> I am slightly mystified as to how that came to be what you settled on.
>   

At the time Andrew Cagney and I decided to go that route, it was because 
frysk had no means of effecting kernel changes other than by use of a 
loadable module and the use of  /proc entries was a common, easily 
accessible, means of communicating with modules.

> I don't think it's worthwhile to hash over that.  Let's move on.
>   

I'd love to, but it would be nice to have a clue as to which 
direction.   All I'm getting from The World is a list of stuff I 
shouldn't be doing, and that helps not at all with regard to what I 
/should/ be doing.

> Please forget ptrace.  Please forget about adding syscalls.  At this
> point I think I just need you to give me the benefit of the doubt when
> I tell you I am sure this is not the way, and even dabbling sidetracks
> us from really useful progress.  Let's move on.
>   

Again, ptrace hacks and new syscall hacks are things I can actually do 
and in the absence of any other clue concerning what I should be doing 
it's what I've been doing.--I know it's a been a near-total waste of my 
time, but it kinda beats staring at a blank screen all day.  I'll be 
glad to give you the benefit of the doubt--you've been kernel hacking 
longer than I have--but if you have cool notions about which way to go, 
you kinda need to let the rest of us know what they are.  (And, reading 
ahead, yeah, I know, that's what the rest of this note is...)

I'll commence to hackin'.

cm

-- 
Chris Moller

  I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but
  I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
      -- Robert McCloskey


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