Hi - On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:01:21AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > [...] > What I don't understand is why [libgdb?] doesn't solve 99% of your problem. > ptrace is not perfect but most of the real ptrace limitations actually > come about because either the CPU can't do something or because the > supporting logic would be too expensive - things like having extra > private debugger pages. At least one reason is that ptrace is single-usage-only, so for example you cannot concurrently debug & strace the same program. OTOH, utrace is designed to permit clean nesting/sharing semantics for concurrent debugger-type tools operating on the same processes. - FChE -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
