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Re: [PING] [PATCH] sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete Linux PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL constant


On 08/08/2017 09:07 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 08/08/2017 12:30 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:20:17AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> On 08/07/2017 11:33 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Looks like among those few who care about sys/ptrace.h nobody feels
>>>> experienced enough to review this change, so I'll go forward and commit it.
>>>
>>> Please tread carefully, and give the machine maintainer time to review, or
>>> directly TO: the machine maintainers and ask for review.
>>>
>>> Lack of a response does not mean you can assume consensus. Follow up with
>>> machine maintainers, even one ACK from a maintainer goes a long way to
>>> knowing there is support for your change.
>>
>> JFYI, PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL was an architecture-independent constant.
> 
> Agreed, but the patch still touches machine-specific headers.

I don't think our maintainer process confers exclusive code ownership,
quite the opposite actually.  It's unblock-by-default for the
maintainer, not block-everyone-else.

I looked at Dmitry's changes, and they look good to me.  Please
reconsider your opposition.

Thanks,
Florian


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