Hello, This modifies the memory read/write functions so that they strongly prefer the inferior's to_xfer_partial method over the older to_xfer_memory method. With this in place the need to implement xfer_memory is eliminated - I deleted the function from inf-ptrace.c - inferiors (namely GNU/Linux) can more easily overide the inherited xfer method. committed, Andrew (and I thought getting GNU/Linux using inferior inheritance was be easy)