From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Ranga Iyengar <ambuga@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: siginfo of traced child to parent process
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:06:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030410220626.GA32489@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030410214141.67857.qmail@web40601.mail.yahoo.com>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 02:41:41PM -0700, Ranga Iyengar wrote:
> I wanted to know if there is a way to get the
> siginfo_t of a child process from a parent process.
> The child process is traced by the parent process
> using ptrace system call and if the child is stopped
> because of SIGSEGV or SIGFPE, the address of the
> instruction that caused the exception is available to
> the child from the signal handler thro' the siginfo
> structure. Is there any way of getting this
> info(siginfo) to the parent. The parent attaches to
> the child in the same way 'gdb' attaches to the
> debugged programs.
>
> I'm using linux kernel 2.4.18
There is in 2.5 - it's called PTRACE_GETSIGINFO. There isn't in 2.4.18
though.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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2003-04-10 21:41 siginfo of traced child to parent process Ranga Iyengar
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