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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:51:00 -0000
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Build inf-ptrace.o when ptrace available
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>    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 ;-).

Andrew