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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 05:22:00 -0000
From: Alan Matsuoka <alanm@redhat.com>
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Ben Elliston wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>   Jim> Does anyone know of any system where this limitation actually holds?
>   Jim> This rigamarole is causing me some trouble, and I'd like to make the
>   Jim> code conditional, or (preferably) delete it.
> 
>   Jim> We got attach.exp from the HP merge, which makes me suspect that it's
>   Jim> an HP problem, but this entire test is disabled on HPUX.
> 
> This rings a bell.  If my memory serves me correctly, on HP-UX you
> can't ptrace an executable that is on an NFS volume.
> 

I think you're right. I remember that I had to do something like that
with HP-UX. I can't remember why though.

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