Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?
David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 03 Jun 2002 21:37:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:49:51 -0400
Not really, we should just get EINVAL (ENOSYS?) back when we try to use
it, right?
I answered this last week, you will get -EIO which turns out to also a
valid return from PTRACE_READDATA. So a backwards compatible way to
test for existence of PTRACE_READDATA is going to be difficult.
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