On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:49:56PM -0400, Chris Moller wrote: > I've been scratching my head for a bit on some other way to provide > user-space access to utrace. Three things occurred to me: > > 1. A systemtap-like approach. > 2. A whole new syscall, SYS_utrace or some such. > 3. An extension of ptrace.
Extending ptrace seems like a sad idea. If Linux is going to grow a new userspace-accessible debug interface, can't it go in /proc or something? The single biggest pain in GDB's process management is dealing with signals, especially the ways that ptrace interferes with normal operation. But I don't have any context; I don't know what you're adding... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
