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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 1996 06:24:49 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net
Cc:        gj@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/164
Message-ID:  <199601201924.GAA03945@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Note, I removed the referecnes to PT_ATTACH/PT_DETACH since they are
>ifdef'd out of <sys/ptrace.h>, but don't we have the ability to
>attach/detach process using GDB?  If so, can someone (Gary J.) bring
>back the changes to the man-page, or at least update the include file to
>reflect reality.

gdb uses procfs for attach/detach.  Defining PT_ATTACH/PT_DETACH would
probably just cause sys_process.c to fail to compile.  There are some
old bits in there from before 1.1 (kept in case someone wants to make
them work).

Bruce
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