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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	       Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>,
	       Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>,
	       "'GDB Patches'" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] New convenience variable $_exitsignal
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5238A8A2.4030107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379444008.2222.35.camel@soleil>

On 09/17/2013 07:53 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 12:36 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
>> Another consideration along these lines is that I have a branch in
>> progress for "catch exit" -- it's been waiting for Sergio's work on
>> these convenience variables.  I think here as well $_exitsignal seems
>> like a natural fit, even though the process has not technically exited
>> at the catchpoint.
> Will there be (significant) functional differences between
>     "catch exit"
> and
>     "catch syscall exit exit_group" ?

"catch exit" implemented with PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT allows catching
SIGKILLs.  "catch syscall" doesn't.  See:

  [PR 15812 - catch death by SIGKILL]
  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15812

-- 
Pedro Alves


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-17 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-16  6:30 Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-06-16 16:22 ` Doug Evans
2013-06-17  3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-17  7:32 ` Pierre Muller
2013-06-17 17:55   ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-06-19  5:26     ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-09-16 18:04       ` Pedro Alves
2013-09-17  0:11         ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-09-17 16:19           ` Pedro Alves
2013-09-17 18:39         ` Tom Tromey
2013-09-17 18:53           ` Philippe Waroquiers
2013-09-17 18:59             ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-09-17 18:59             ` Tom Tromey
2013-09-17 19:08             ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2013-09-17 19:02           ` Pedro Alves
2013-09-17 19:09             ` Tom Tromey
2013-07-18 16:48     ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-17 17:28 ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-17 17:31   ` Pedro Alves
2013-06-17 17:41   ` Sergio Durigan Junior

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