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From: Sean Chen <sean.chen1234@gmail.com>
To: Jakob Engblom <jakob@virtutech.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>,
	gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: System call support in reversible debugging
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e81cb500912040739r1bef581ew6fc598bfaf024adc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a101ca73f7$13fe26e0$3bfa74a0$@com>

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jakob Engblom <jakob@virtutech.com> wrote:
>> > Not a black box -- but not a detailed implementation either.
>> > Each system call has a specification -- that's all we need to
>> > understand.  The specification tells what user-visible external
>> > side effects can be expected (eg. this buffer will be filled).
>> > Changes that are internal to the kernel do not concern us.
>>
>> Thanks. I understand your concern. Does Linux kernel provide such an
>> official specification? If so, could you throw me a hint on where to
>> get it? Since we have all of the side effects, recording the system
>> calls are feasible and trustable.
>
> I guess these have to be the header files specifying the function call
> prototypes?
>
> Or is something else also done for precord?
>
> /jakob
>
>

I searched sys_open in the whole Linux kernel, and I didn’t find such
information. Thanks all the same.

-- 
Best Regards,
Sean Chen


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-04 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-27 15:11 Sean Chen
2009-11-27 15:42 ` Hui Zhu
2009-11-27 18:11   ` Sean Chen
2009-11-28  1:45     ` Hui Zhu
2009-11-28 17:44       ` Sean Chen
2009-11-29  2:24         ` Michael Snyder
2009-11-29  2:24           ` Sean Chen
2009-11-30 12:27             ` Michael Snyder
2009-11-30 16:03               ` Hui Zhu
2009-11-30 16:29                 ` Sean Chen
2009-12-01 11:32                   ` Jakob Engblom
2009-12-01 20:21                     ` Greg Law
2009-12-02 17:16                       ` Jakob Engblom
2009-12-03  3:05                         ` Sean Chen
     [not found]                   ` <4B142C54.7070207@vmware.com>
2009-12-03  2:57                     ` Sean Chen
2009-12-03  9:00                       ` Jakob Engblom
2009-12-04 15:40                         ` Sean Chen [this message]
2009-12-03 16:57                       ` Michael Snyder
2009-12-04 15:46                         ` Sean Chen

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