From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 20:16:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 20:16:04 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:40189 "EHLO branoic") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 20:16:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 20:15:55 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: William Lee Irwin III , "David S. Miller" , frank.schafer@setuza.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC? Message-ID: <20020530001555.GA4831@branoic.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , "David S. Miller" , frank.schafer@setuza.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020519.214053.19164382.davem@redhat.com> <1021876190.250.7.camel@ADMIN> <20020520.141800.52934272.davem@redhat.com> <20020529235116.GB3797@branoic.them.org> <20020530000311.GY14918@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:03:11PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:18:00PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > >> I can't see any reason why lack of PTRACE_READDATA prevents follow > >> fork mode support in GDB. > > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:51:16PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 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. > > What is this and who is working on it? David Howells, at the same time as the rest of the task ornaments stuff. You'd have to ask him what the current state of it is. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer