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From: Paul Gilliam <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: ptrace & threads question
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Hi All,

'ptrace' is documented as acting on processes: it takes a PID as an argument. 
So if we are in a thread environment, where do we get registers for a 
particular thread? 

What does the user area mean in a threads environment?

How is this different between NPTL and Linux threads?

-=# Paul #=-