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Re: [rfc/rfa] [1/4] SPU enhancements: preparation
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: uweigand at de dot ibm dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:49:58 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [rfc/rfa] [1/4] SPU enhancements: preparation
- References: <200706021931.l52JVBZQ005084@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:31:11 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> this is a small fix in preparation for adding extended SPU query support.
> Some files in spufs accessed via the spu_proc_xfer_spu routines in
> spu-linux-nat.c and gdbserver/spu-low.c are non-seekable. Currently,
> any attempt to access those at non-zero offset results in a failure.
Are these files inherently non-seekable (side-effects?) or is this
just a Linux quirk you're trying to work around?