[patch] Fix Linux attach to signalled/stopped processes

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Wed Jun 27 22:06:00 GMT 2007


On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:01:20 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
...
> So it seems that Linux completely ignores SIGSTOP if a process is
> already stopped.  That's the right thing to do for "normal" processes,
> but not ok for traced processes.  Looks like fixing that would solve a
> lot of problems.

Unfortunately it would break compatibility.  This is what the UTRACE code from
Roland McGrath is going to do, so far it provides only the backward compatible
utrace(2) interface.


Jan



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