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 19:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:51:33 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:14069 "EHLO branoic") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:51:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:51:16 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "David S. Miller" Cc: frank.schafer@setuza.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC? Message-ID: <20020529235116.GB3797@branoic.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "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> 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 Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:18:00PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Frank Schaefer > 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. 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. > But then again the GDB maintainers are a > bunch of pinheads so... Hey, I resemble this remark. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer