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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:45:40PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> I don't think so.  You should rather implement a sys32_ptrace and
> reference it in the 32bit syscall vector.  Look at the version in
> arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c for an example.

There is a 32-bit ptrace compatibility syscall already and last I tried
it was working quite well for strace.

  Ralf