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Re: Can't attach over NFS?

From: Alan Matsuoka <alanm at redhat dot com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:21:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Can't attach over NFS?
Organization: RedHat
References: <vt2n0o6jdno.fsf@zenia.red-bean.com> <m3lm3p7sb2.fsf@scooby.brisbane.redhat.com>

Ben Elliston wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "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.
> 

I think you're right. I remember that I had to do something like that
with HP-UX. I can't remember why though.

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Alan Matsuoka
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References:
- Can't attach over NFS?
  - From: Jim Blandy
- Re: Can't attach over NFS?
  - From: Ben Elliston

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