From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25590 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2003 14:57:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25582 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 14:57:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2003 14:57:16 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3zSa-0005c6-VF for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:57:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:59:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: process attaching gdb to itself Message-ID: <20030929145712.GA21543@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200309282225.h8SMP9Rf026649@duracef.shout.net> <3F77622C.8090403@redhat.com> <20030928232401.GA20802@nevyn.them.org> <3F7831F3.6010203@redhat.com> <20030929132631.GA17873@nevyn.them.org> <3F784742.2090009@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F784742.2090009@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00375.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:52:50AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >>I feel ill. What happens, for instance, if /proc isn't there? > > > > > >At this point in its life, Linux can just assume the /proc filesystem > >is available. Linus has repeatedly refused to duplicate information > >available via /proc through another interface. > > Sounds like the GNU/Linux back end should, finally, switch to /proc? Don't we just wish? No one's implemented enough of the BSD-style /proc for it to replace ptrace. It would be nice if someone did, but it turned out to be a bigger task than I had time for. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer