Re: ptrace? Other similar interfaces?

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 03/30/05

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    Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> writes:

    >How portable is ptrace? Are there other ways of keeping tabs on what
    >system calls a process is utilizing?

    Less and less (the ptrace interface is fairly arcane and inefficient;
    on Solaris it is supported only for source compatibility and implemented
    on top of /proc tracing).

    System call tracing specifically is a "new" thing in the ptrace world and
    not supported by all implementations (not implemented in the Solaris
    emulation as far as I can tell).

    Casper 

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