From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
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 15:12:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809231512.40813.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30687.26589.qm@web94802.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
> 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.
ptrace allows direct access to the state of a different process. Passing
through ptrace would give you the state of qemu itself, not the program
you're interested in, so you have to emulate everything via some othe IPC
mechanism (which must also be hidden from the emulated application). This
includes signals like SIGSTOP which cannot be trapped.
If you're not extremely careful you end up with a monstrosity like Cygwin, and
all the problems that implies.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 14:12 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 [this message]
2008-09-23 14:20 ` Paul Brook
2008-09-23 15:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-23 18:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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