Re: [RFA] Don't talk about ptrace when there's none

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>]

Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> Daniel Berlin+list.gdb-patches wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > Isn't there a test for PTRACE in the configuration script?
> > Can't we use that somehow, rather than __DJGPP__?
> > maybe HAVE_PTRACE exists in config.h?
> >
> > I ask because we don't have ptrace on BeOS either, and i don't think
> > we want to have more than one ifdef.
> 
> The ptrace message is really old, and there are now lots of
> systems that don't use ptrace (including Solaris, Irix, and
> yes even the Hurd).  What if we move that msg down into
> inflow or infptrace?

Oh -- on second thought, the message is appropriately placed --
it just doesn't need to mention ptrace!  The semantics of
print_sys_errmsg is to spell out what "errno" says.  Perhaps
we should replace the string "ptrace" with the name of the
function that contains this code.