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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
Cc: raj <raj@cs.wisc.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zandy@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace on stopped processes (2.4)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:58:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030325135802.GA13406@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030325104842.A7468@almesberger.net>

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:48:42AM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > No, that's not what I meant.  When you attach using GDB, there is no
> > way for GDB to determine if the process was previously stopped or
> > running.
> 
> Likewise, there's a race condition with any other concurrent use
> of SIGSTOP.
> 
> Perhaps one could introduce a PTRACE_ATTACH2 that uses "addr" to
> indicate the signal that should be used to sychronize attaching.
> That way, programs that use STOP/CONT for their own purposes could
> be attached to with ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH2,pid,SIGTRAP,0), or such.
> 
> If the process is already stopped, the debugger would be notified
> with WSTOPSIG set to that signal instead of SIGTRAP.

Have you got an example that needs this?  I'm not terribly concerned;
GDB's handling of SIGSTOP has always been pretty bad.  Strace is a bit
better.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-25 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-17 21:24 [PATCH] ptrace on stopped processes (2.4) Rajesh Rajamani
2003-03-24  4:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-03-24  6:24   ` raj
2003-03-24 15:05     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-03-25 13:48       ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-25 13:58         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-03-25 14:53           ` Werner Almesberger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-21 19:53 vic
2001-12-21 23:19 ` Jeff Dike
2001-12-22  3:56 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2001-12-22 17:38 ` Mike Coleman
2002-01-17 16:57   ` vic
2002-01-17 19:23     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-01-23 17:58       ` vic
2002-01-23 22:14         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-01-23 22:29           ` vic
2002-01-24  1:41             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2002-01-21  3:09     ` Mike Coleman
2002-01-28 20:15       ` vic
2002-03-19  3:59         ` vic

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