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In-Reply-To: Message from J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>  of Wed, 08 Nov 95 00:02:24 +0100.
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Subject: Re: port of strace? 
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as J"org Wunsch wrote:

>> actually, gdb uses /proc and not ptrace. Or is that only for the
>> attach/detach stuff ? Can't remember anymore.
>
> I think procfs is still too weak to run a debugger on it.

well, OK. But, I *know* that the attach/detach stuff uses /proc since I
added it :) 'Nuff said.

Gary J