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

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>]

   Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 09:58:34 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>

   So what do people prefer, eventually?  I could:

     (a) install the changes posted by Elena, and have the error message
     mention ptrace only if HAVE_PTRACE is defined;

   or

     (b) change the wording of the message so that it doesn't mention
     ptrace at all, as suggested by Michael.

   I like the second alternative better, especially since, as I now
   understand, ptrace is unused on many platforms.

   Comments?

I'm in favor for the second aternative too, especially since the Hurd
does have ptrace that is only sporadically used in GDB.  It isn't used
for inserting breakpoints, so mentioning ptrace in the error message
would be misleading for the Hurd.

Mark