From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26537 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2008 22:38:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 26528 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Apr 2008 22:38:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (HELO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com) (71.74.56.122) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:37:58 +0000 Received: from dell2.home ([66.67.48.11]) by hrndva-omta05.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080412223756.XIOX21853.hrndva-omta05.mail.rr.com@dell2.home> for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:37:56 +0000 Received: from dell2.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by dell2.home (8.13.4/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m3CMbtfl022914 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:37:55 GMT Message-Id: <200804122237.m3CMbtfl022914@dell2.home> To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: breaking on open(2) on linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <22911.1208039875.1@dell2.home> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:12:00 -0000 From: "Marty Leisner" Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 I've used gdb for 20 years...I've found the ability to break on a system call and then backtrace very useful when reverse engineering code Now, I can't do it (not sure when I last could -- I recall its been a problem before, but I worked around it). strace shows open(2) calls... I have no problem breaking on exit(3) or _exit(2) -- or write(2). But I can't seem to break on open(2). I'm using ubuntu 7.10 with recent gdb/gcc... marty