From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc3 broke ptrace in the vsyscall dso area
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:39:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040202153918.GA1935@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402020543.i125hgoa009640@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:43:42PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Any idea what might have disabled this?
>
> ...Mosberger!! When Andrew asked me to sign off on David's rework of that
> code, I did so with the caveat that it be tested on i386 before being
> accepted, and evidently it never was.
>
> The #include is the part of this patch that matters, so the #ifdef below
> works. (Frankly, I have never seen the rationale for conditionalizing this
> code on AT_SYSINFO_EHDR rather than just FIXADDR_USER_START. But David
> wanted it that way and Andrew approved it.) The rest of the patch removes
> gratuitous duplication due to some strange aversion to concision in the
> presence of #ifdef, the kind that is all too common, utterly pointless, and
> error prone.
Thanks, adding <linux/elf.h> makes GDB much happier.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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2004-02-02 3:55 2.6.2-rc3 broke ptrace in the vsyscall dso area Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-02 5:43 ` Roland McGrath
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