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From: "Éric Brunet" <ebrunet@quatramaran.ens.fr>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:32:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104171532.RAA12722@quatramaran.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104171426.JAA76050@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
In-Reply-To: <200104170915.LAA00596@quatramaran.ens.fr> <200104171426.JAA76050@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>

In ens.mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
>
>I believe it allows the debugger to start the process to be debugged.
>
Well, the debugger simply needs to do something like

        pid_t child = fork();
        if (child == 0) {
                ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME,0,0,0);
                execve(the_debugged_process,args,env);
        }

It is more portable, more traditionnal and works very well.

Éric Brunet

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-17 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-12  8:55 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 12:38 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-17  9:15   ` Éric Brunet
2001-04-17 14:26     ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 15:32     ` Éric Brunet [this message]
2001-04-13 21:08 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-14  3:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-14  4:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14 13:35     ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-12 13:44 Hubertus Franke
2001-04-12 19:15 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 19:45 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-13 16:28 Hubertus Franke
2001-04-13 23:51 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14  1:54 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-14  2:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14  2:51     ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-14  2:52     ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-14  2:45 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14  7:58 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14  8:42 ` Michael O'Reilly
2001-04-14  9:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14 15:06   ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-14 16:11 Adam J. Richter

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