On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > does not look right to me. Before, we'd get an 0x80|SIGTRAP result > from wait. Now, you've moved the 0x80 to live only inside the siginfo. > This is accessible to the debugger via ptrace, but only very recently > (late 2.5.x). So this will probably break users of PT_TRACESYSGOOD.
I don't see how to easily emulate the old behaviour 100% - see ptrace_notify. We always sent the signal SIGTRAP to the process, and then set "exit_code" tp have the 0x80 marker by calling ptrace_stop() by hand. However, if we make it a real signal (which we need to do to get the continue semantics right), we no longer have that out-of-band info available to us. We could make "get_signal_to_deliver()" pass in some other exit_code to ptrace_stop() than just signr. It would have to pick it up from the siginfo structure, but then we'd have to make sure that _other_ signal users do that properly.. Patches/suggestions welcome. Linus