Re: ptrace bugs and related problems

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jul 27 2006 - 03:16:54 EST


From: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:55:17 -0400

> Writing a reliable debugger with ptrace on Linux is absurdly painful.

This is why people like Roland are working on utrace, it seems to
provide ways to deal with most of the limitations you mention,
especially the signal ones.
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