From: Mathieu Lacage <Mathieu.Lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
To: Vara Prasad <prasadav@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>, systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: user kprobes vs debuggers
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138953635.3886.85.camel@chronos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E2FA1E.5070901@us.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:37 -0800, Vara Prasad wrote:
> I think this mechanism should handle applications that have breakpoints
> builtin as well because i am thinking they are going to use ptrace
> interface as well to register the breakpoint, is that correct.
No, such applications (at least, mine) are going to insert int3 by hand
in the code (yes, I know, this is evil but it is possible).
If you are interested, it is some sort of profiler/tracer available from
there: http://www-sop.inria.fr/dream/personnel/Mathieu.Lacage/bozo-
profiler/
regards,
Mathieu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-03 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-02 19:22 Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-03 6:37 ` Vara Prasad
2006-02-03 8:04 ` Mathieu Lacage [this message]
2006-02-03 16:12 ` Vara Prasad
2006-02-06 9:58 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2006-02-09 13:59 ` Richard J Moore
2006-02-03 17:43 Stone, Joshua I
2006-02-03 18:39 ` Vara Prasad
2006-02-03 20:29 Stone, Joshua I
2006-02-03 21:08 ` James Dickens
2006-02-03 22:00 ` Vara Prasad
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