Re: ptrace in 2.6.5

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:47:08AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > So single-step exception happen *after* executed the "mov ...".
> > Probably you need to use the breakpoint instead of single-step.
> 
> Ah, sorry. Just use PTRACE_SYSCALL instead of PTRACE_SINGLESTEP.
> It's will stop before/after does syscall.

Doing it this way is pretty lousy - you have to inspect the code after
every step to see if it's an int $0x80.  Is there some reason not to
report a trap on the syscall return path if single-stepping?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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