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View Ref-File5.11.43  Ptrace                                                    TOS

 Name:         »Ptrace« - process tracing and debugging

 Gemdosnummer: 265

 Deklaration:  int16_t Ptrace(int16_t request, int16_t pid, void * 
               addr, int32_t data)

 Beschreibung: Ptrace provides tracing and debugging facilities. It 
               allows one pro- cess (the tracing process) to control 
               another (the traced process). Most of the time, the 
               traced process runs normally, but when it receives a 
               signal (see sigaction(2)), it stops. The tracing 
               process is expected to notice this via wait(2) or the 
               delivery of a SIGCHLD signal, examine the state of the 
               stopped process, and cause it to terminate or continue 
               as appropriate. Ptrace is the mechanism by which all 
               this happens.

               The request argument specifies what operation is being 
               performed; the meaning of the rest of the arguments 
               depends on the operation, but except for one special 
               case noted below, all ptrace calls are made by the 
               tracing process, and the pid argument specifies the 
               process ID of the traced process. request can be:

                PT_TRACE_ME (0) This request is the only one used by 
                             the traced process; it declares that the 
                             process expects to be traced by its par- 
                             ent. All the other arguments are ignored. 
                             (If the parent process does not expect to 
                             trace the child, it will proba- bly be 
                             rather confused by the results; once the 
                             traced pro- cess stops, it cannot be made 
                             to continue except via ptrace.) When a 
                             process has used this request and calls 
                             execve(2) or any of the routines built on 
                             it (such as execv(3)), it will stop 
                             before executing the first instruc- tion 
                             of the new image. Also, any setuid or 
                             setgid bits on the executable being 
                             executed will be ignored.

                PT_READ_I (1), PT_READ_D (2)
                             These requests read a single int of data 
                             from the traced process' address space. 
                             Traditionally, ptrace has al- lowed for 
                             machines with distinct address spaces for 
                             in- struction and data, which is why 
                             there are two requests: conceptually, 
                             PT_READ_I reads from the instruction 
                             space and PT_READ_D reads from the data 
                             space. In the current NetBSD 
                             implementation, these two requests are 
                             completely identical. The addr argument 
                             specifies the address (in the traced 
                             process' virtual address space) at which 
                             the read is to be done. This address does 
                             not have to meet any align- ment 
                             constraints. The value read is returned 
                             as the return value from ptrace.

                PT_WRITE_I (4), PT_WRITE_D (5)
                             These requests parallel PT_READ_I and 
                             PT_READ_D, except that they write rather 
                             than read. The data argument sup- plies 
                             the value to be written.

                PT_CONTINUE (7) The traced process continues 
                             execution. addr is an address specifying 
                             the place where execution is to be 
                             resumed (a new value for the program 
                             counter), or (caddr_t)1 to indi- cate 
                             that execution is to pick up where it 
                             left off. data provides a signal number 
                             to be delivered to the traced pro- cess 
                             as it resumes execution, or 0 if no 
                             signal is to be sent.

                PT_KILL (8)  The traced process terminates, as if 
                             PT_CONTINUE had been used with SIGKILL 
                             given as the signal to be delivered.

                PT_ATTACH (9) This request allows a process to gain 
                             control of an other- wise unrelated 
                             process and begin tracing it. It does not 
                             need any cooperation from the to-be- 
                             traced process. In this case, pid 
                             specifies the process ID of the to-be- 
                             traced process, and the other two 
                             arguments are ignored. This re- quest 
                             requires that the target process must 
                             have the same real UID as the tracing 
                             process, and that it must not be 
                             executing a setuid or setgid executable. 
                             (If the tracing process is running as 
                             root, these restrictions do not ap- ply.) 
                             The tracing process will see the newly- 
                             traced pro- cess stop and may then 
                             control it as if it had been traced all 
                             along.

                             Two other restrictions apply to all 
                             tracing processes, even those running as 
                             root. First, no process may trace the 
                             process running init(8). Second, if a 
                             process has its root directory set with 
                             chroot(2), it may not trace another pro- 
                             cess unless that process's root directory 
                             is at or below the tracing process's 
                             root.

                PT_DETACH (10) This request is like PT_CONTINUE, 
                             except that it does not allow specifying 
                             an alternative place to continue execu- 
                             tion, and after it succeeds, the traced 
                             process is no longer traced and continues 
                             execution normally.

                PT_SYSCALL (11) Continue and stop at next return from 
                             syscall.

               Additionally, machine-specific requests can exist. On 
               the SPARC, these are:

                PT_GETREGS This request reads the traced process' 
                  machine registers into the struct reg (defined in 
                  <machine/reg.h>) point- ed to by addr.

                PT_SETREGS This request is the converse of PT_GETREGS; 
                  it loads the traced process' machine registers from 
                  the struct reg (defined in <machine/reg.h>) pointed 
                  to by addr.

                PT_GETFPREGS This request reads the traced process' 
                  floating-point reg- isters into the struct fpreg 
                  (defined in <machine/reg.h>) pointed to by addr.

                PT_SETFPREGS This request is the converse of 
                  PT_GETFPREGS; it loads the traced process' 
                  floating-point registers from the struct fpreg 
                  (defined in <machine/reg.h>) pointed to by addr.

 Ergebnis:     Some requests can cause ptrace to return -1 as a non- 
               error value; to disambiguate, errno can be set to 0 
               before the call and checked after- wards. The possible 
               errors are:

                ww      No process having the specified process ID 
                        exists.

                EINVAL

                           ∙ A process attempted to use PT_ATTACH on 
                             itself.
                           ∙ The request was not one of the legal 
                             requests.
                           ∙ The signal number (in data) to 
                             PT_CONTINUE was neither 0 nor a legal 
                             signal number.
                           ∙ PT_GETREGS, PT_SETREGS, PT_GETFPREGS, or 
                             PT_SETFPREGS was at- tempted on a process 
                             with no valid register set. (This is nor- 
                             mally true only of system processes.)

                EBUSY

                           ∙ PT_ATTACH was attempted on a process that 
                             was already being traced.
                           ∙ A request attempted to manipulate a 
                             process that was being traced by some 
                             process other than the one making the 
                             request.
                           ∙ A request (other than PT_ATTACH) 
                             specified a process that wasn't stopped.

                EPERM

                           ∙ A request (other than PT_ATTACH) 
                             attempted to manipulate a pro- cess that 
                             wasn't being traced at all.
                           ∙ An attempt was made to use PT_ATTACH on a 
                             process in violation of the requirements 
                             listed under PT_ATTACH above.

 Verfügbar:    This function is available since FreeMiNT 1.15.11.

 Gruppe:       Prozessfunktionen

 Querverweis:  Binding