Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?
Daniel Jacobowitz (dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Wed, 29 May 2002 20:15:55 -0400
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:03:11PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 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?
David Howells, at the same time as the rest of the task ornaments
stuff. You'd have to ask him what the current state of it is.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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