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From: Frank Schaefer <frank.schafer@setuza.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?
Date: 20 May 2002 08:29:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1021876190.250.7.camel@ADMIN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020519.214053.19164382.davem@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:40, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Pradeep Padala <ppadala@cise.ufl.edu>
>    Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>       I was trying to understand ptrace code in kernel. It seems there's
>    no PTRACE_READDATA for architectures other than sparc and sparc64.
>    There's a function named ptrace_readdata() in kernel/ptrace.c but I
>    couldn't find a way to invoke it from user space. Is the feature
>    missing? or Is it intended?
> 
> Only Sparc implements this, that is correct.

... and that's the reason why GDB don't support follow-fork-mode for the
intel pltform - right? ( I had a related thread on the gdb mailing list
not soo long ago. )

Frank



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-20  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-20  3:08 No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC? Pradeep Padala
2002-05-20  4:40 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-20  6:29   ` Frank Schaefer [this message]
2002-05-20 21:18     ` David S. Miller
2002-05-29 23:51       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-30  0:03         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-30  0:15           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-20 20:12   ` Pradeep Padala
2002-05-29 23:49   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-30  0:31     ` David S. Miller
2002-05-30  0:48       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-30 15:22         ` Pradeep Padala
2002-06-04  4:37     ` David S. Miller

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