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From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Alex LIU <alex.liu@st.com>
Cc: "'Andries Brouwer'" <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	"'Pavel Machek'" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The purpose of PT_TRACESYSGOOD
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:10:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050111111015.GC2760@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ac01c4f7a6$c79e03f0$ac655e0a@sha.st.com>

>> /*
>>  * A child stopped at a syscall has status as if it received SIGTRAP.
>>  * In order to distinguish between SIGTRAP and syscall, some kernel
>>  * versions have the PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD option, that sets an extra
>>  * bit 0x80 in the syscall case.
>>  */

> Then I think the tracing thread should call the ptrace_request to set
> PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD flag of the traced thread first before
> ptrace(PTRACE_SYSCALL...) ,right?

Yes.

>From a baby ptrace demo:

#define SIGSYSTRAP      (SIGTRAP | sysgood_bit)

int sysgood_bit = 0;

void set_sysgood(pid_t p) {
#ifdef PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD
        int i = ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, p, 0, (void*) PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD);
        if (i == 0)
                sysgood_bit = 0x80;
        else
                perror("PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD");
#endif
}

and now the signal SIGSYSTRAP signifies a system call when the sysgood bit
was implemented, anything different from SIGSYSTRAP is guaranteed to be a signal.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-11 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-10  3:58 The purpose of PT_TRACESYSGOOD Alex LIU
2005-01-10 20:24 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-11  2:30   ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-11  6:28     ` Alex LIU
2005-01-11 11:10       ` Andries Brouwer [this message]

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