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authorMark Kettenis <kettenis@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-09-14 20:56:00 +0000
committerMark Kettenis <kettenis@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-09-14 20:56:00 +0000
commitfb65217599a80cebb331c8dd8e10705d0d43ff97 (patch)
tree7d590566df2b1b0af9913241265d12a09e1c7a0c /lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
parent1fcd182d81508267db65891073ead2bbc40b5437 (diff)
ptrace(2) following fork(2)
ok miod@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/ptrace.265
1 files changed, 64 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2 b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
index a5d9f0b2fad..70c53dd316a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.19 2005/07/20 21:51:36 miod Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.20 2005/09/14 20:55:59 kettenis Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.3 1996/02/23 01:39:41 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" This file is in the public domain.
@@ -232,6 +232,69 @@ will return
.Li -1
and set
.Va errno .
+.It Dv PT_SET_EVENT_MASK
+This request can be used to specify which events in the traced process
+should be reported to the tracing process.
+These events are specified in a
+.Dq Li "struct ptrace_event"
+defined as:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+typedef struct ptrace_event {
+ int pe_set_event;
+} ptrace_event_t;
+.Ed
+Where
+.Fa pe_set_event
+is the set of events to be reported.
+This set is formed by OR'ing together the following values:
+.Bl -tag -width 18n
+.It PTRACE_FORK
+Report
+.Xr fork 2 .
+.El
+.Pp
+A pointer to this structure is passed in
+.Fa addr .
+The
+.Fa data
+argument should be set to
+.Li sizeof(struct ptrace_event) .
+.It Dv PT_GET_EVENT_MASK
+This request can be used to determine which events in the traced
+process will be reported.
+The information is read into the
+.Dq Li struct ptrace_event
+pointed to by
+.Fa addr .
+The
+.Fa data
+argument should be set to
+.Li sizeof(struct ptrace_event) .
+.It Dv PT_GET_PROCESS_STATE
+This request reads the state information associated with the event
+that stopped the traced process.
+The information is reported in a
+.Dq Li "struct ptrace_state"
+defined as:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+typedef struct ptrace_state {
+ int pe_report_event;
+ pid_t pe_other_pid;
+} ptrace_state_t;
+.Ed
+Where
+.Fa pe_report_event
+is the event being reported.
+If the event being reported is
+.Dv PTRACE_FORK ,
+.Fa pe_other_pid
+will be set to the process ID of the other end of the fork.
+A pointer to this structure is passed in
+.Fa addr .
+The
+.Fa data
+argument should be set to
+.Li sizeof(struct ptrace_state) .
.El
.Pp
Additionally, machine-specific requests can exist.