2010/5/19 ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com> wrote: > >>> It gives you the option of not restarting the system call until later. >>> There could be more complex usage scenarios. >> >> I don't understand this. > > You read the "start of the system call" message. The process is > stopped. It has not run the system call. > > You have a lot of options at that point. You could, programatically, > drop the person into acid (the debugger, not the liquid) and, when > they exit, resume the process. You really do have lots of control.
But there's nothing more fun than watching someone scream in a HCl bath of high molarity, especially after they've made a dumb programming error! (Sorry for the noise, I had to.) --dho
