From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: sathish kumar <sathishs_45@yahoo.com>,
rajesh-siso <rajesh.uvce@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Regarding PTRACE implementation in QEMU user mode
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:02:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080923150236.GA10595@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809231520.51803.paul@codesourcery.com>
Paul Brook wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Can someone explain why explain why ptrace system call is not implemented
> > > in QEMU? if someone is working on it, please share some ideas.
> >
> > Because it's extremely hard (read: nearly impossible) to implement
> > properly.
>
> I'll also note that the usual use of ptrace if for gdb/gdbserver. You should
> use the builtin qemu gdb stub instead.
The other usual use is strace, which seems like it would be useful for
user mode emulation.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 14:01 [Qemu-devel] Regarding PTRACE implementation in QEMU user mode sathish kumar
2008-09-23 14:12 ` Paul Brook
2008-09-23 14:20 ` Paul Brook
2008-09-23 15:02 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-09-23 18:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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