Re: Why I want PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP option

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 15:01 +0200, Indan Zupancic wrote:
> On Fri, September 9, 2011 14:26, Indan Zupancic wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, September 9, 2011 07:54, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >> On Friday 09 September 2011 02:18, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >>> Hello, Denys.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:50:01PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >>> > Consider what will happen when a next ptrace fix will require
> >>> > a way to change ptrace API at runtime. A new option will likely
> >>> > be introduced, say, PTRACE_O_TRACEPONY, with next available
> >>> > bit position 7, and perhaps some new event will be generated,
> >>> > PTRACE_EVENT_PONY, with value.... yes, it can't be 7,
> >>> > PTRACE_EVENT_STOP took it. So it will probably be 8.
> >>>
> >>> Then, just give it the next matching number.
> >>
> >> My point is that previously, ptrace behavior was modified by setting
> >> options. Why don't we use this mechanism? Why we invent a different
> >> wheel? Ptrace is ugly as-is, why complicate it even further?
> >>
> >> The argument was that SETOPTIONS wasn't suitable for modifying
> >> attach behavior, but this is fixed by "set options on SEIZE"
> >> patch. I don't see why we can't use options mechanist to affect
> >> group-stop behavior now.
> >
> > I totally agree with Denys here.
> >
> > It is very useful to set options atomically at SEIZE time. Having
> > SEIZE set some hidden option implicitly only makes things more
> > confusing and harder to explain what SEIZE does. Please apply Denys'
> > SEIZE API improvements.
> >
> > Another important reason to make PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP an option is
> > because not everyone uses SEIZE: Users using PTRACE_TRACEME can't
> > set this option at all. For those PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP is needed.
> > Using PTRACE_TRACEME is the common case for both strace and gdb.
> 
> PTRACE_O_TRACESTOP only makes sense if it also affects auto-attach
> SIGSTOPS, of course. I don't know if it does. It probably should.

With the patch, it will affect them if it is used in list of options
passed on SEIZE.

-- 
vda


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