Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?

[Frank Schaefer]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:40, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Pradeep Padala <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>       I was trying to understand ptrace code in kernel. It seems there's
>    no PTRACE_READDATA for architectures other than sparc and sparc64.
>    There's a function named ptrace_readdata() in kernel/ptrace.c but I
>    couldn't find a way to invoke it from user space. Is the feature
>    missing? or Is it intended?
> 
> Only Sparc implements this, that is correct.

... and that's the reason why GDB don't support follow-fork-mode for the
intel pltform - right? ( I had a related thread on the gdb mailing list
not soo long ago. )

Frank