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From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org, linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: monitoring code while executing.
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:35:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041122193533.GP26791@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041122182459.60354.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, 2004-11-22 10:24:59 -0800, A M <alim1993@yahoo.com>
wrote in message <20041122182459.60354.qmail@web51903.mail.yahoo.com>:
> Can anybody think of a method in which one process can
> view (monitor, read) the instructions of another
> process while it is running (one process see
> instruction of another process while they get fetched
> to be executed)? Is it possible with threads instead
> of processes? 

Any debugger (like gdb) or system/library call tracer (strace, ltrace)
does this using the ptrace system call.

MfG, JBG

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-22 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-22 18:24 monitoring code while executing A M
2004-11-22 19:35 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2004-11-22 21:17   ` Daniel Souza

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