Re: How to get thread context?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 10:51:14 EST

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> Does anyone know how to get thread context?
> Ie, can I look at the register state of a non-running process or thread
> from user space?

ptrace is the syscall you need. Have a play with gdb's 'attach pid' command

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