Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Wed, 29 May 2002 17:03:11 -0700


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:18:00PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>> I can't see any reason why lack of PTRACE_READDATA prevents follow
>> fork mode support in GDB.

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:51:16PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.

What is this and who is working on it?

Cheers,
Bill
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