expected behavior when a signal is sent to the ptraced child

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Thu May 25 19:37:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:06:43AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > What I expect is the parent will at least output:
> >
> > stopped by signal 5 
> >
> > What is the  problem here?  Did I make something wrong?
> 
> You need to use waitpid/wait4 and add WUNTRACED to the options parameter.
> Without that you'll never receive notification of stopped processes.

WUNTRACED shouldn't be necessary in this case because the child is
actually ptraced.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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