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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Kevin Wooten <kevin@wooten.com>
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Subject: Re: ptrace & threads
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It is teh nextthing to look at..
The ptrace interface doesn't extend to coverthreads at all.
We willneed to design somewhole new system..
One posibility is the benedict arnold thread(*), that
talks with the debugger and controlls teh other threads..

:-)

(*) considerred a traitor by some and patriot by others.. :-)


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Kevin Wooten wrote:

> Is it possible (and how, if it is) to control individual threads of a 
> process under ptrace? If not what does this require, some kind of manual 
> interaction with the thread library? Some general direction pointing 
> would be very helpful, thanks.
> 
> -kw
> 
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