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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Break on syscall?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 13:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060519124834.GA750@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1148033730.30951.15.camel@okra.transitives.com>

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:15:30AM +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
> Is it possible to get gdb to break on entering/exiting a syscall (rather
> than breaking on entering libc or some such)?

This is not supported.

> Does gdb use ptrace() to
> control breakpoints in the debugged code?

Breakpoints are inserted usually using PTRACE_POKETEXT.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-19 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-19 10:59 Alex Bennee
2006-05-19 13:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-05-19 22:06   ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-19 23:13     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-20  3:00       ` PAUL GILLIAM
2006-05-21 13:25         ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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