> Linux already posesses modular support for a /proc filesystem, every distribution, and I believe the stock kernel config includes support for this under the filesystems section by default.
I should have been clearer. I would like to know about the features ptrace
supports like "system call tracing", "setting breakpoints" etc.
Traditionally they were done through ptrace interface. In solaris and I
guess in other operating systems like IRIX, they are moved to /proc
interface. Applications wanting to trace programs like gdb, would use
ioctl on the /proc/<pid> and trace the programs.
As far as I could investigate, I didn't find any such interface in linux.
Programs like strace do the tracing through ptrace only.
Please let me know if you know more about this.
--pradeep
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