Re: [vox-tech] Suspending a process by PID

2003-12-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
of course, this assumes you wanted to do it from a C program... ;-) heh. pete On Mon 22 Dec 03, 10:18 AM, Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > hey nicole, > > yeah, sure it's possible. i'm surprised that sending SIGSTOP/SIGCONT > doesn't work. but then again, i've never tried tha

Re: [vox-tech] Suspending a process by PID

2003-12-22 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hey nicole, yeah, sure it's possible. i'm surprised that sending SIGSTOP/SIGCONT doesn't work. but then again, i've never tried that. anyway, using ptrace() to attach to a process will make the process a child and suspend it immediately. you can then step through instructions, look at memory m

Re: [vox-tech] Suspending a process by PID

2003-12-22 Thread Nicole TWN
At 10:05 AM 12/22/2003, you wrote: Trying to remember... wouldn't that be: $ kill -SIGSTOP PID And then if you want it to continue: $ kill -SIGCONT PID Appropriate man page: $ man 7 signal This appears to be it! Love and kisses, everyone. --n twn ___

Re: [vox-tech] Suspending a process by PID

2003-12-22 Thread Dave Margolis
Nicole, That (from the shell) would look something like this: kill -SIGSTOP 1159 (where 1159 is my PID) To start the process back up: kill -SIGCONT 1159 If you're trying to call the same thing from a C program: kill(pid, SIGTSTP);(where pid is an int = to some PID) This requires the f

Re: [vox-tech] Suspending a process by PID

2003-12-22 Thread ME
Trying to remember... wouldn't that be: $ kill -SIGSTOP PID And then if you want it to continue: $ kill -SIGCONT PID Appropriate man page: $ man 7 signal -ME Nicole TWN said: > Hi gang > > Anyone know how to suspend a process given its PID? > > It seems like it should be possible, via signals

[vox-tech] Suspending a process by PID

2003-12-22 Thread Nicole TWN
Hi gang Anyone know how to suspend a process given its PID? It seems like it should be possible, via signals or something, but I can't find how. Thanks --nicole twn ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/