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Re: Fun with LD_PRELOAD
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Fun with LD_PRELOAD |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:21:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi, Doug,
Doug Evans <address@hidden> skribis:
> It's kinda useful to see the system call tracing amongst gdb's own
> debug output, but my real goal is to explore ways of exercising gdb
> that are otherwise harder to do.
> With this I can script what happens when gdb does ptrace,waitpid,tkill,etc.
> Whether this exploration yields anything useful ... TBD.
Looks fun. So the main application would be to stress-test GDB and see
if it misses signals sent to application threads right when GDB is about
to stop them, for example, right?
Cheers,
Ludo’.