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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:56:50 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        srii_u1@yahoo.com, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: debugging 
Message-ID:  <199910151556.IAA03397@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:10:24 %2B1000." <19991015111024.37498@mojave.lemis.com> 

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> On Thursday, 14 October 1999 at 12:05:48 +0530, Srinivasan. R wrote:
> > can you tell me how to debug an application with ptrace systemcall and
> > how can i fetch the processor register values stored at that particular
> > moment and how can i access the u-area  structure members along  with
> > the address of them.
> 
> Sorry, I haven't much experience in this.  But you'll probably get
> better results from -hackers.  I'm copying this reply there.

The short answer is "use gdb".  The slightly longer answer is "read 
ptrace(2)".

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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