From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23655 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2007 15:50:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 23646 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jun 2007 15:50:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:50:04 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5FFnwos023008; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:49:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id l5FFnwYp021247; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:49:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:50:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200706151549.l5FFnwYp021247@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: uweigand@de.ibm.com CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <200706021931.l52JVBZQ005084@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> (uweigand@de.ibm.com) Subject: Re: [rfc/rfa] [1/4] SPU enhancements: preparation References: <200706021931.l52JVBZQ005084@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00293.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:31:11 +0200 (CEST) > From: "Ulrich Weigand" > > Hello, > > this is a small fix in preparation for adding extended SPU query support. > Some files in spufs accessed via the spu_proc_xfer_spu routines in > spu-linux-nat.c and gdbserver/spu-low.c are non-seekable. Currently, > any attempt to access those at non-zero offset results in a failure. Are these files inherently non-seekable (side-effects?) or is this just a Linux quirk you're trying to work around?