Can't attach over NFS?

[Ben Elliston]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> writes:

  Jim> Does anyone know of any system where this limitation actually holds?
  Jim> This rigamarole is causing me some trouble, and I'd like to make the
  Jim> code conditional, or (preferably) delete it.

  Jim> We got attach.exp from the HP merge, which makes me suspect that it's
  Jim> an HP problem, but this entire test is disabled on HPUX.

This rings a bell.  If my memory serves me correctly, on HP-UX you
can't ptrace an executable that is on an NFS volume.

Ben