On 13/11/2013 10:48, Mark Wielaard wrote: > And ELFOSABI_LINUX describe ELF files which do use > such GNU extensions. What is the convention on Debian/kfreebsd?
Well, we used to provide these features before ELFOSABI_LINUX became a requirement for having them. Now we can't provide them anymore (sigh). Fortunately this doesn't (yet) break any essential functionality. > This one is mostly just used as a workaround to see whether ptrace > correctly propagates a SIGSTOP on attach/detach. It can probably be > ignored if ptrace "behaves". > > [...] > That was a type BTW. Should have been auxv. It is sometimes possible to > get at the AUXV information in a different way. If not available only > some functionality is degraded. Thanks for the details. Unortunately manpower is scarce, but it may be useful for looking into this someday. > Well, it doesn't do much harm. It just means you cannot easily > introspect the kernel and kernel modules with elfutils/libdwfl. But that > is not functionality many programs want/need anyway. If they do, then > there are probably other issues they have to deal with that make them > depend on the linux kernel anyway. I recommend that route then ;-) Thank you -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
