Re: [linuxsh-dev] New strace patches

[Greg B. <gb...@po...>]

Stuart Menefy wrote:
> 
> Folks
> 
> Several months ago Greg did a great job adding SuperH support to strace
> version 4.2. However that version didn't support some of the new 64 bit
> file operations, and as a result trying to strace a program using those
> system calls gives some rather odd output.

  Yes, I screwed up there (I learnt my lesson by the time I ported LTT).
 
  Also, there is a known problem with the msgrcv(2) or shmat(2) calls giving
the error

ptrace: umoven: Input/output error

> So what I have done is adapted Greg's patches for strace 4.4 (which
> supports the new system calls). Attached is a copy of the new patches
> against strace 4.4 from the SourceForge repository downloaded yesterday
> (21st Aug 2001). This appears to fix the problems I've seen, but
> if any of the new system calls require architecture dependant fixes
> then they will almost certainly be missing. If you find anything like
> this, please let me know.

  
> 
> Greg, I know you were going to submit your changes to the strace
> maintainer, did you ever hear anything? 

  I submitted patches circa Aug 2000, and didn't hear anything back.
The day after I submitted patches I discovered I was going to be in
the US for a month, and I sort of lost track.  Ok, it's a real bad
excuse, sorry.

> Would you like me to try - keeping
> your copyrights intact of course.

  Yes, but the situation is slightly more complex, see my private message.

Greg.
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