Roland McGrath wrote:

> > Since Roland changed now to wakeup tracee with kill, I guess this needs to be fixed.
> > http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/gnupatch@41e3fe5fIRH-W3aDnXZgfQ-qIvuXYg
> Indeed, this change should go in.  I'd forgotten about this.  I don't think
> there are any other things we decided to leave one way or another based on
> the ptrace behavior that has now changed back again, but I might be
> forgetting others too.  Thanks for bringing it up.

  Thanks, but looks like we fixed only part of the problem. If the
  child is on the exit path and releases sighand, we need to check for
  its existence too.  The attached patch should work.


Thanks,
Prasanna.