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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ptrace in unix tracing non-child processes
Message-ID: <10996@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 17:30:56 GMT
References: <352@tandem.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 11
Keywords: Debugger

In article <352@tandem.UUCP> narayan@tandem.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram) writes:
>Has any one considered implementing a `xptrace ()' which can 
>debug non-child processes. This will get one the ability to
>debug processes such as daemons that are already running.

Better: throw out ptrace entirely and adopt the V8/V9 `/proc' approach.
ptrace is ugly and slow; /proc is moderatly odd (ioctls for process
control!?) and much less so.
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