Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:51:12 +0000 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: Reading the context of a process |
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Arun Sharma wrote:
> Can anyone give me a hint about how to read the context (registers, > memory) of a process stopped by SIGSTOP ? > > I know that debuggers use ptrace system calls. But the processes > need to have a parent-child relationship ? Is it possible to do it via > /proc ?
You can do a PTRACE_ATTACH to ptrace an arbitrary process. This is how gdb and strace can attach to any running process.
Mike
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