Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C9ric?= Brunet (ebrunet@quatramaran.ens.fr)
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:32:46 +0200


In ens.mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
>
>I believe it allows the debugger to start the process to be debugged.
>
Well, the debugger simply needs to do something like

pid_t child = fork();
if (child == 0) {
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME,0,0,0);
execve(the_debugged_process,args,env);
}

It is more portable, more traditionnal and works very well.

Éric Brunet
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