Re: [linuxsh-dev] Ptrace

[Mitch D. <mj...@al...>]

David Mckay wrote:
> 
> > Just a heads-up, Greg is working on the strace usermode
> > program at the moment.
>
> He is obviously a lot braver than me. I started looking at that stuff and
> rapidly put it on my list marked "Things I hope somebody else does before
> I have to" :-)

I'm finding it quite fun.  Listening to Greg as he tears his
hair out, that is!  There are many fundamental bad things about
it.  Greg is trying to do minimum SuperH changes, while resisting
the temptation to fix all the obviously sub-optimal cruft in it,
at least until after the SuperH patch has gone in.

> As an aside, we now have an engineer working full time on producing a
> distribution. It will be based on Montavista's distribution

A good choice, for the reasons Stuart mentioned earlier.

> The guy who is doing it is
> a Linux novice, so it may take some time for him to get up to speed.

I am very interested in helping with this task.  If there's anything
I can do, please yell.

> Just out of curiosity, how many other people on the list are actually paid to
> work full time on Linux for SuperH? We now have 3 here at ST.

Oh excellent.  Yes, Greg and I are.  But forces beyond our control
meant we couldn't start until Monday of this week.

Regards,

Mitch.
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