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Re: Fun with LD_PRELOAD


Hi, Doug,

Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com> 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,
Ludoâ.


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