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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] 'catch syscall' feature --	Architecture-independent part
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> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:43:02 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:54:49 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: bauerman@br.ibm.com, sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
> > 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > Should we make the description of 'catch syscall' more clear to
> > exclude other OS facilities?
> 
> We could, but that would be second best, IMO.  It would be better to
> make the abstraction less Unix-centric.

Come on.  Syscall tracing *is* low level stuff and making it less
Unix-centric makes it less useful.