In article <200104071937.PAA08335@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>,
der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

>This sounds...familiar.
>
>I did an implementation of PTRACE_SYSCALL, including the MD bits for
>sparc and sun3.  It was not particularly clean and had numerous
>problems of varying degrees of severity.  When I pinged about
>committing it, these problems were pointed out to me, including a few I
>wasn't already aware of.

This is not entirely fair. Yes, it is true we want clean code.
Some of us even go into the pain of cleaning up other people's
submissions when they are "close" but not "there yet". I looked at
PTRACE_SYSCALL 3 years ago and decided that it was too much of a
pain to bash it in, and needed some serious cleanup. Well, 3 years
have passed and the code is not in the tree. So is my MI fdc driver
that I never had time to make it work on the sparc that would make
fdc driver sharing easier. Am I bitter? No I just blame myself for
not finding the time to finish it.

christos