Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 19:31:18 EST


   From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
   Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:49:51 -0400

   On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:40:53PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> If other platforms added PTRACE_READDATA support, they would
> also need to add some way to do a feature test for it's presence
> so that GDB and other debugging code could actually make use
> of it portably.
   
   Not really, we should just get EINVAL (ENOSYS?) back when we try to use
   it, right?

You'd get -EIO, but otherwise yes you are right.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri May 31 2002 - 22:00:27 EST