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Re: Can't attach over NFS?
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 19 Nov 2002 21:44:01 +1100
- Subject: Re: Can't attach over NFS?
- Organization: Red Hat Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd
- References: <vt2n0o6jdno.fsf@zenia.red-bean.com>
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> writes:
Jim> Does anyone know of any system where this limitation actually holds?
Jim> This rigamarole is causing me some trouble, and I'd like to make the
Jim> code conditional, or (preferably) delete it.
Jim> We got attach.exp from the HP merge, which makes me suspect that it's
Jim> an HP problem, but this entire test is disabled on HPUX.
This rings a bell. If my memory serves me correctly, on HP-UX you
can't ptrace an executable that is on an NFS volume.
Ben