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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: ppadala@cise.ufl.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 20:48:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020530004811.GA5921@branoic.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10205192307500.26915-100000@rain.cise.ufl.edu> <20020519.214053.19164382.davem@redhat.com> <20020529234951.GA3797@branoic.them.org> <20020529.173118.130757558.davem@redhat.com>

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:31:18PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>    Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:49:51 -0400
> 
>    On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:40:53PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    > If other platforms added PTRACE_READDATA support, they would
>    > also need to add some way to do a feature test for it's presence
>    > so that GDB and other debugging code could actually make use
>    > of it portably.
>    
>    Not really, we should just get EINVAL (ENOSYS?) back when we try to use
>    it, right?
> 
> You'd get -EIO, but otherwise yes you are right.

Really?  That's inconvenient; the same result as for an invalid memory
address.

Oh well, it can still be worked around in GDB.  I'd like to see this on
more/all architectures.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30  0:48 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
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 [this message]
2002-05-30 15:22         ` Pradeep Padala
2002-06-04  4:37     ` David S. Miller

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