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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:32:03 -0700
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:00:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch
> statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most
> architectures.  This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the
> arch-specific code as arch_ptrace.

The signature of arch_ptrace needs to return long, and not int.
The PTRACE_PEEK{TEXT,DATA,USR} requests return a "word", which 
on 64-bit arches needs to be a 64-bit type.


r~