strace doesn't work on 2.4.0-testX

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Martin Costabel wrote:
> The problem is that strace stopped working somewhere between
> 2.4.0-test1-ac18 and -ac21 (I have both kernels and verified just
> moments ago). It still doesn't work with 2.4.0-test5-pre2. Is this a
> known problem or am I doing something wrong? I haven't seen anything on
> the linux-kernel list (in the l-k archives, the last message with a
> similar subject is from 1996), so it could be a ppc-related problem.

IIRC this is a known problem, caused by some changes in the ptrace() syscall.

But IIRC, I did see an announce that someone did fix it on PPC. Or was that on
MIPS?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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