From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13443 invoked by alias); 19 May 2006 10:16:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 13421 invoked by uid 22791); 19 May 2006 10:16:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smarthost3.mail.uk.easynet.net (HELO smarthost3.mail.uk.easynet.net) (212.135.6.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 May 2006 10:15:34 +0000 Received: from [217.207.128.220] (helo=pennyblack.transitives.com) by smarthost3.mail.uk.easynet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1Fh216-0003mR-00 for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 19 May 2006 11:15:32 +0100 Received: from internal.transitives.com ([172.16.0.1] helo=okra.transitives.com) by pennyblack.transitives.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Fh1l7-0001r5-Ix for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 19 May 2006 10:59:01 +0100 Subject: Break on syscall? From: Alex Bennee Reply-To: kernel-hacker@bennee.com To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:59:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1148033730.30951.15.camel@okra.transitives.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00305.txt.bz2 Is it possible to get gdb to break on entering/exiting a syscall (rather than breaking on entering libc or some such)? Does gdb use ptrace() to control breakpoints in the debugged code? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. -- Ambrose Bierce