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From: Robert Love <rml@ufl.edu>
To: Pradeep Padala <ppadala@cise.ufl.edu>
Cc: Andrew D Kirch <Trelane@Trelane.Net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ptrace vs /proc
Date: 20 Jun 2002 14:49:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024609747.922.0.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206201742170.18444-100000@lin114-02.cise.ufl.edu>

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 14:46, Pradeep Padala wrote:

> As far as I could investigate, I didn't find any such interface in linux. 
> Programs like strace do the tracing through ptrace only.
> 
> Please let me know if you know more about this.

There is no such interface in Linux and currently no plans to develop a
Solaris-style /proc.

Some work that may go into 2.5, task ornaments, may facilitate easier
debugging and perhaps make such a /proc more feasible in the future.

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-20 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-20 21:10 ptrace vs /proc Pradeep Padala
2002-06-20 21:36 ` Andrew D Kirch
2002-06-20 21:46   ` Pradeep Padala
2002-06-20 21:49     ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-06-21  2:08       ` Pradeep Padala
2002-07-02  0:47       ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-02 21:16         ` David Wagner
2002-07-03  1:18           ` Pradeep Padala
2002-07-03  3:45           ` Pavel Machek

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