Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC?

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 23:37:43 EST


   From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>
   Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:49:51 -0400
   
   Not really, we should just get EINVAL (ENOSYS?) back when we try to use
   it, right?
   
I answered this last week, you will get -EIO which turns out to also a
valid return from PTRACE_READDATA. So a backwards compatible way to
test for existence of PTRACE_READDATA is going to be difficult.
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