From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Satish Mohan <Satish.Mohan@Accenia.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb 6.3 misses breakpoint on Linux when inferior does clone()
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050526194339.GA17881@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2DC041637C94C64C8039281448B323B2870FBA@abbott.domain.trailerparc.com>
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:40:39PM -0700, Satish Mohan wrote:
> Hi  If the inferior does a clone(...,CLONE_VM,...) on Linux, then gdb
> deletes breakpoints in the child which indirectly affects the parent
> because of CLONE_VM. The following sample code illustrates the
> problem:
The kernel does not provide any interface for GDB to know whether or
not a clone syscall has used CLONE_VM. Until it does, there's very
little that GDB can do about this. It assumes that clone using SIGCHLD
is not sharing a VM space, and clone using a different signal is.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-26 19:40 Satish Mohan
2005-05-26 19:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-05-26 20:02 Satish Mohan
2005-05-26 20:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-05-31 17:06 tronics93-gdb
2005-06-01 13:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-06-11 23:31 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-06-12 0:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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