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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   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.  But then again the GDB maintainers are a
bunch of pinheads so...