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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: frank.schafer@setuza.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:51:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020529235116.GB3797@branoic.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10205192307500.26915-100000@rain.cise.ufl.edu> <20020519.214053.19164382.davem@redhat.com> <1021876190.250.7.camel@ADMIN> <20020520.141800.52934272.davem@redhat.com>

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:18:00PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Frank Schaefer <frank.schafer@setuza.cz>
>    Date: 20 May 2002 08:29:50 +0200
> 
>    On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:40, David S. Miller wrote:
>    > 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. )
> 
> I can't see any reason why lack of PTRACE_READDATA prevents follow
> fork mode support in GDB.

It doesn't.  Follow-fork support is possible now, with a speed hit, but
I am waiting for better kernel support; it should be forthcoming with
the task ornament-based debugging interface proposed some time ago.

>  But then again the GDB maintainers are a
> bunch of pinheads so...

Hey, I resemble this remark.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-29 23:51 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
2002-05-20 21:18     ` David S. Miller
2002-05-29 23:51       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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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