[RFC]: block ptrace operations.

[James Cownie]

Is there any reason why the kernel does not in general support the block
ptrace operations (PTRACE_READDAATA, PTRACE_READTEXT, PTRACE_WRITEDATA,
PTRACE_WRITEEXT) ?

The major part of the code for implementing them is in the architecture
independent part of the kernel (kernel/ptrace.c ptrace_readdata(...),
ptrace_wrietdata(...)), yet the only platform which supports them as of
2.6.8.1 appears to be the SPARC.

Would patches to implement them on more platforms be likely to be
accepted ?

It seems weird to me that they're not already supported on more
platforms since they're compiling in most of the code they need !

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-- Jim
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