From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15055 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2004 19:42:13 -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 15002 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2004 19:42:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 Sep 2004 19:42:13 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9U3A-0002o7-RR; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:42:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/RFC] Replace call_ptrace and ptrace_wait in inf-ptrace.c Message-ID: <20040920194212.GA10736@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200409201913.i8KJDosi035323@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <414F30D1.7080706@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414F30D1.7080706@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00322.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:34:41PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >This is another step in the direction of eliminating the need for both > >inf-ptrace.c and infptrace.c. It eliminates the calls to call_ptrace > >and ptrace_wait. > > > >Andrew has recently suggested that we'd want debugging support for the > >ptrace(2) interface, which could be implemented by using call_ptrace() > >unconditionally. > > Having, again, spent some time debugging GNU/Linux threads, I'm pretty > much certain of this. I completely agree. -- Daniel Jacobowitz