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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org,
	 "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Fun with LD_PRELOAD
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761ovp1hw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9bCMRsRrqEYG+7jS-m2EOhByAB+9hTFUuikoNJeJpxGATu5Q@mail.gmail.com>	(Doug Evans's message of "Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:08:18 -0800")

Hi, Doug,

Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com> skribis:

> It's kinda useful to see the system call tracing amongst gdb's own
> debug output, but my real goal is to explore ways of exercising gdb
> that are otherwise harder to do.
> With this I can script what happens when gdb does ptrace,waitpid,tkill,etc.
> Whether this exploration yields anything useful ... TBD.

Looks fun.  So the main application would be to stress-test GDB and see
if it misses signals sent to application threads right when GDB is about
to stop them, for example, right?

Cheers,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-04 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-02 22:08 Doug Evans
2014-02-04 11:21 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-02-05 18:21   ` Doug Evans
2014-02-05 19:11     ` Pedro Alves
2014-02-06  7:58       ` Doug Evans

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