Re: 2.6.2-rc3 broke ptrace in the vsyscall dso area

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:43:42PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Any idea what might have disabled this?
> 
> ...Mosberger!!  When Andrew asked me to sign off on David's rework of that
> code, I did so with the caveat that it be tested on i386 before being
> accepted, and evidently it never was.
> 
> The #include is the part of this patch that matters, so the #ifdef below
> works.  (Frankly, I have never seen the rationale for conditionalizing this
> code on AT_SYSINFO_EHDR rather than just FIXADDR_USER_START.  But David
> wanted it that way and Andrew approved it.)  The rest of the patch removes
> gratuitous duplication due to some strange aversion to concision in the
> presence of #ifdef, the kind that is all too common, utterly pointless, and
> error prone.

Thanks, adding <linux/elf.h> makes GDB much happier.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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