Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Gang,
>
> I don't know exactly what the gdb(1) problems on Alpha are, but we
> do have a problem that's probably not specific to an architecture.
>
> The problem is basicly this: one cannot debug any programs because
> gdb(1) gets a SIGTRAP delivered when it invokes ptrace(2) and never
> gets a change to wait4(2) the "interior" process.
>
> I don't know the details, but one of the following can be the case
> 1. We now deliver a SIGTRAP, when we didn't do so before,
> 2. The SIGTRAP comes too quick, it should be "caught" by the wait4(2).
>
> I couldn't find any indication that 1 happened, so my guess is that
> we suffer from 2.
>
> Is this known?
> Any thoughts?
peter has been working on this...
It's because the process structure and u-area have changed entirely.
>
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