Re: [RFC] Proposed manpage additions for ptrace(2)

["Charles P. Wright" <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu>]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:02 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >        PTRACE_SYSEMU, PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP
> >               For  PTRACE_SYSEMU,  continue  and  stop  on  entry  to the next
> >               syscall, which will not  be  executed.   For  PTRACE_SYSEMU_SIN-
> >               GLESTEP, so the same but also singlestep if not a syscall.
> 
> I think this is right; I had nothing to do with these :-)
I didn't have anything to do with it, but this description is correct
(if a bit confusing).  I think that you should explicitly say (assuming
that Paolo does not have any objections):

PTRACE_SYSEMU only makes sense at a call's exit, not at entry.
PTRACE_SYSEMU is only practical if you want to emulate all of a
process's system calls (as is done in UML), because you can not examine
the process's registers before making the decision to emulate a call.

Charles