Re: [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace

Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-11T17:33:12Z

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:32:03AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:00:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch
> > statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most
> > architectures. This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the
> > arch-specific code as arch_ptrace.
>
> The signature of arch_ptrace needs to return long, and not int.
> The PTRACE_PEEK{TEXT,DATA,USR} requests return a "word", which
> on 64-bit arches needs to be a 64-bit type.

Ok. Will be that way in the next patch.