From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26884 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2004 21:31:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26854 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2004 21:31:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.sf.frob.com) (64.81.54.130) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Jan 2004 21:31:24 -0000 Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638F2357B; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0TLVNOi003790; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:31:23 -0800 Received: (from roland@localhost) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id i0TLVMS4003786; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:31:22 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:31:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200401292131.i0TLVMS4003786@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] auxv support In-Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii's message of Thursday, 29 January 2004 21:01:44 +0200 <3405-Thu29Jan2004210144+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> X-Shopping-List: (1) Rudimentary loser axes (2) Stoic gong guilt (3) Incestuous salad soft-serve (4) Miscellaneous whip effluents (5) Ascetic rectums X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00746.txt.bz2 > Thanks, I'm happy with this patch. Pwerhaps just point the user to a > man page or an Info file, if any, where the system-specific details > of the displayed infor could be found. There isn't one. These bits are really at the level of implementation detail. They are not really part of any spec I'm aware of per se (though how and where to find them are centrally specified), just part of the local contract between a kernel and system libraries.