On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:57:41AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
quoted text
> Not if you tried to do checking from ptrace monitor.
> 
> And heck, yes, it is very confusing to see
> 
> seek(somewhere)
> write()
> 
> ond ptrace and write going somewhere else.

Yes bugs are confusing.  An application can't do this on demand so you
can't write code that relies on the effect between threads.  So it would
only be a bug, not a bizare feature (that wouldn't even work on 64bit
machines).

-- 
Len Sorensen
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