Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:28:48 +0100 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Proposal for ptrace improvements |
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Hello,
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:14:14PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > There may be reasons to have PTRACE_SEIZE operation split like that. > For one, this allows debugger to do PTRACE_CONT, and later issue > PTRACE_INTERRUPT to stop the tracee again. PTRACE_INTERRUPT stop may > be better for some scenarios where debugger wants to make the stop > invisible to the parent, or when debugger wants to stop just one > thread of the process.
PTRACE_SEIZE can be used like PTRACE_INTERRUPT. It works whether the tracee is attached or not.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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