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
next prev parent 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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