From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25779 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2004 18:23:58 -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 25749 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2004 18:23:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Oct 2004 18:23:56 -0000 Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl [192.168.0.2]) by walton.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i94INsVX027623; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:23:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.12.6p3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i94INsMa001359; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:23:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kettenis@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.12.6p3/8.12.6/Submit) id i94INsMM001356; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:23:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:23:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200410041823.i94INsMM001356@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: cagney@gnu.org CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <41618D95.2050003@gnu.org> (message from Andrew Cagney on Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:51:17 -0400) Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Build inf-ptrace.o when ptrace available References: <415DC09D.2070407@gnu.org> <200410012154.i91Ls6lE001359@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <41615D1E.8070007@gnu.org> <200410041720.i94HKl66001187@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <41618D95.2050003@gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00061.txt.bz2 Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:51:17 -0400 From: Andrew Cagney > Going forward we need to get GNU/Linux and other systems using procfs > and an obvious migration path for that is to build support for both > procfs and ptrace into a single GDB. The default being to use ptrace. > > The /proc on Linux is not even close to a "real" procfs. Fortunatly, that can be fixed (just like any other kernel bug - we've been seeing success in that area recently ;-). You know Andrew, you can be really funny ;-). Mark