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Re: ptrace improvement: PTRACE_O_INHERIT
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:01:53 +0100, Roland McGrath wrote:
> (that probably being asynchronous detach, not requiring stopped tracees, and
> not supporting any parting-signal feature).
That may be too asynchronous. After GDB/gcore/etc. finishes new PTRACE_ATTACH
must complete successfully. I never know if it is already guaranteed or not
but in practice it works now.
If there is no PTRACE_DETACH_ALL_TIDS(pid) and PTRACE_O_THREAD_INHERIT is in
use GDB probably has to repeatedly iterate /proc/PID/task/*/status till all
have TracerPid == 0.
> the attach-group implementation will be sufficiently hairy that the kernel
> community would demand that we do some simpler incremental changes first
> before attempting it (such as what I proposed for ATTACH_NOSTOP, which
> eliminates the SIGSTOP and rolls in atomic option-setting).
thread_db_find_new_threads_2 already does an ugly loop of repeated threads
finding. There are also some failures that can be probably fixed by changing
td_ta_thr_iter to readdir(/proc/PID/task) (RH#677654). There are some pending
bugs in GDB about it.
Thanks,
Jan