From: "Satish Mohan" <Satish.Mohan@Accenia.com>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: gdb 6.3 misses breakpoint on Linux when inferior does clone()
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2DC041637C94C64C8039281448B323B2870FC0@abbott.domain.trailerparc.com> (raw)
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:44 PM
To: Satish Mohan
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb 6.3 misses breakpoint on Linux when inferior does clone()
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.
[Satish] Doesn't ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS,...) provide that information ? Or is that arch. specific ?
Thx
--satish
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2005-05-26 20:02 Satish Mohan [this message]
2005-05-26 20:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2005-06-01 13:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2005-05-26 19:40 Satish Mohan
2005-05-26 19:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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