Re: Some failures in 0.8.0b1

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From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2008 - 04:00:00 PST

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    On Monday 01 December 2008, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
> Thank you Neal (and sorry for calling you "Neil" before),
>
>   The fix to the prctl test will appear in 0.8.0_b2 (probably later
> tonight).
>   The ptrace test failure is still a mystery to me.  I know the fc8 and
> fc9 kernels replace the ptrace implementation from the kernel.org
> kernels with one written in terms of Red Hat's "utrace".  However, I
> cannot pin down what the difference is between the two that leads to the
> BLCR test failure.  It is possible that there is a utrace bug, but I am
> not holding my breath.
>

I'm guessing the ptrace test failure is not critical to my normal usage of 
blcr?
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