RFC: raising minimum supported linux kernel version to v2.5.46

[enh]

Android's been >= 2.6 forever so we won't notice.

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
<pombredanne at nexb.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 15 Feb 2015 15:47, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>>> Do you think it's time to assume that PTRACE_SETOPTIONS and
>>> PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD|PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC|PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE are
>>> universally available and working?
>>>
>>> If yes, then all code that supports post-execve SIGTRAP and implements
>>> fork/vfork/clone->CLONE_PTRACE substitution could be removed.
>>>
>>> The question essentially means whether new versions of strace
>>> should work on linux kernels older than v2.5.46
>>> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/11/4/213)?
>>
>> i think the # of people realistically using <=2.4 nowadays is beyond carrying
>> about, especially wrt downloading & building recent software.  mainstream
>> projects (like glibc) have been requiring linux-2.6 for years now.
>>
>> so if dropping this code provides a nice clean up, and you're merely requiring
>> linux-2.6, then i say go for it.
>
> +1 . I still see 2.4 but oh-so rarely and folks still running on 2.4
> are likely to be happy with the current (or often much older) strace
> version.
>
> --
> Cordially
> Philippe Ombredanne
>
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