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416 lines
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.\" $NetBSD: ptrace.2,v 1.13 2000/09/27 22:31:43 nathanw Exp $
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.\"
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.\" This file is in the public domain.
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.Dd November 7, 1994
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.Dt PTRACE 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ptrace
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.Nd process tracing and debugging
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
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.Fd #include <sys/ptrace.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn ptrace "int request" "pid_t pid" "caddr_t addr" "int data"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Fn ptrace
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provides tracing and debugging facilities. It allows one process (the
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.Em tracing
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process) to control another (the
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.Em traced
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process). Most of the time, the traced process runs normally, but when
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it receives a signal
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.Po
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see
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.Xr sigaction 2
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.Pc ,
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it stops. The tracing process is expected to notice this via
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.Xr wait 2
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or the delivery of a
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.Dv SIGCHLD
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signal, examine the state of the stopped process, and cause it to
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terminate or continue as appropriate.
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.Fn ptrace
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is the mechanism by which all this happens.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fa request
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argument specifies what operation is being performed; the meaning of
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the rest of the arguments depends on the operation, but except for one
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special case noted below, all
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.Fn ptrace
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calls are made by the tracing process, and the
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.Fa pid
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argument specifies the process ID of the traced process.
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.Fa request
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can be:
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.Bl -tag -width 12n
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.It Dv PT_TRACE_ME
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This request is the only one used by the traced process; it declares
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that the process expects to be traced by its parent. All the other
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arguments are ignored. (If the parent process does not expect to trace
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the child, it will probably be rather confused by the results; once the
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traced process stops, it cannot be made to continue except via
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.Eo \&
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.Fn ptrace
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.Ec \&.)
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When a process has used this request and calls
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.Xr execve 2
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or any of the routines built on it
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.Po
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such as
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.Xr execv 3
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.Pc ,
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it will stop before executing the first instruction of the new image.
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Also, any setuid or setgid bits on the executable being executed will
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be ignored.
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.It Dv PT_READ_I , Dv PT_READ_D
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These requests read a single
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.Li int
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of data from the traced process' address space. Traditionally,
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.Fn ptrace
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has allowed for machines with distinct address spaces for instruction
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and data, which is why there are two requests: conceptually,
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.Dv PT_READ_I
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reads from the instruction space and
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.Dv PT_READ_D
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reads from the data space. In the current
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.Nx
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implementation, these
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two requests are completely identical. The
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.Fa addr
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argument specifies the address (in the traced process' virtual address
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space) at which the read is to be done. This address does not have to
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meet any alignment constraints. The value read is returned as the
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return value from
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.Eo \&
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.Fn ptrace
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.Ec .
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.It Dv PT_WRITE_I , Dv PT_WRITE_D
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These requests parallel
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.Dv PT_READ_I
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and
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.Dv PT_READ_D ,
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except that they write rather than read. The
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.Fa data
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argument supplies the value to be written.
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.\" .It Dv PT_READ_U
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.\" This request reads an
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.\" .Li int
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.\" from the traced process' user structure. The
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.\" .Fa addr
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.\" argument specifies the location of the int relative to the base of the
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.\" user structure; it will usually be an integer value cast to
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.\" .Li caddr_t
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.\" either explicitly or via the presence of a prototype for
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.\" .Eo \&
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.\" .Fn ptrace
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.\" .Ec .
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.\" Unlike
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.\" .Dv PT_READ_I
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.\" and
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.\" .Dv PT_READ_D ,
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.\" .Fa addr
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.\" must be aligned on an
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.\" .Li int
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.\" boundary. The value read is returned as the return value from
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.\" .Eo \&
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.\" .Fn ptrace
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.\" .Ec .
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.\" .It Dv PT_WRITE_U
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.\" This request writes an
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.\" .Li int
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.\" into the traced process' user structure.
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.\" .Fa addr
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.\" specifies the offset, just as for
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.\" .Dv PT_READ_U ,
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.\" and
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.\" .Fa data
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.\" specifies the value to be written, just as for
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.\" .Dv PT_WRITE_I
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.\" and
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.\" .Dv PT_WRITE_D .
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.It Dv PT_CONTINUE
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The traced process continues execution.
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.Fa addr
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is an address specifying the place where execution is to be resumed (a
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new value for the program counter), or
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.Li (caddr_t)1
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to indicate that execution is to pick up where it left off.
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.Fa data
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provides a signal number to be delivered to the traced process as it
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resumes execution, or 0 if no signal is to be sent.
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.It Dv PT_KILL
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The traced process terminates, as if
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.Dv PT_CONTINUE
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had been used with
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.Dv SIGKILL
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given as the signal to be delivered.
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.It Dv PT_ATTACH
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This request allows a process to gain control of an otherwise unrelated
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process and begin tracing it. It does not need any cooperation from
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the to-be-traced process. In this case,
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.Fa pid
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specifies the process ID of the to-be-traced process, and the other two
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arguments are ignored. This request requires that the target process
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must have the same real UID as the tracing process, and that it must
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not be executing a setuid or setgid executable. (If the tracing
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process is running as root, these restrictions do not apply.) The
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tracing process will see the newly-traced process stop and may then
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control it as if it had been traced all along.
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.Pp
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Three other restrictions apply to all tracing processes, even those
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running as root. First, no process may trace a system process.
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Second, no process may trace the process running
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.Xr init 8 .
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Third, if a process has its root directory set with
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.Xr chroot 2 ,
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it may not trace another process unless that process's root directory
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is at or below the tracing process's root.
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.It Dv PT_DETACH
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This request is like PT_CONTINUE, except that after it
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succeeds, the traced process is no longer traced and continues
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execution normally.
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.El
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.Pp
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Additionally, the following requests exist but are
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not avaliable on all machine architectures. The file
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.Aq Pa machine/ptrace.h
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lists which requests exist on a given machine.
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.Bl -tag -width 12n
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.It Dv PT_STEP
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Execution continues as in request PT_CONTINUE; however
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as soon as possible after execution of at least one
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instruction, execution stops again.
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.It Dv PT_GETREGS
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This request reads the traced process' machine registers into the
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.Dq Li "struct reg"
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(defined in
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.Aq Pa machine/reg.h )
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pointed to by
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.Fa addr .
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.It Dv PT_SETREGS
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This request is the converse of
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.Dv PT_GETREGS ;
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it loads the traced process' machine registers from the
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.Dq Li "struct reg"
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(defined in
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.Aq Pa machine/reg.h )
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pointed to by
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.Fa addr .
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.It Dv PT_GETFPREGS
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This request reads the traced process' floating-point registers into
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the
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.Dq Li "struct fpreg"
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(defined in
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.Aq Pa machine/reg.h )
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pointed to by
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.Fa addr .
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.It Dv PT_SETFPREGS
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This request is the converse of
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.Dv PT_GETFPREGS ;
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it loads the traced process' floating-point registers from the
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.Dq Li "struct fpreg"
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(defined in
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.Aq Pa machine/reg.h )
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pointed to by
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.Fa addr .
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.\" .It Dv PT_SYSCALL
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.\" This request is like
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.\" .Dv PT_CONTINUE
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.\" except that the process will stop next time it executes any system
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.\" call. Information about the system call can be examined with
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.\" .Dv PT_READ_U
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.\" and potentially modified with
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.\" .Dv PT_WRITE_U
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.\" through the
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.\" .Li u_kproc.kp_proc.p_md
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.\" element of the user structure (see below). If the process is continued
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.\" with another
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.\" .Dv PT_SYSCALL
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.\" request, it will stop again on exit from the syscall, at which point
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.\" the return values can be examined and potentially changed. The
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.\" .Li u_kproc.kp_proc.p_md
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.\" element is of type
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.\" .Dq Li "struct mdproc" ,
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.\" which should be declared by including
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.\" .Aq Pa sys/param.h ,
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.\" .Aq Pa sys/user.h ,
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.\" and
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.\" .Aq Pa machine/proc.h ,
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.\" and contains the following fields (among others):
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.\" .Bl -item -compact -offset indent
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.\" .It
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.\" .Li syscall_num
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.\" .It
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.\" .Li syscall_nargs
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.\" .It
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.\" .Li syscall_args[8]
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.\" .It
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.\" .Li syscall_err
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.\" .It
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.\" .Li syscall_rv[2]
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.\" .El
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.\" When a process stops on entry to a syscall,
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.\" .Li syscall_num
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.\" holds the number of the syscall,
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.\" .Li syscall_nargs
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.\" holds the number of arguments it expects, and
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.\" .Li syscall_args
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.\" holds the arguments themselves. (Only the first
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.\" .Li syscall_nargs
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.\" elements of
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.\" .Li syscall_args
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.\" are guaranteed to be useful.) When a process stops on exit from a
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.\" syscall,
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.\" .Li syscall_num
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.\" is
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.\" .Eo \&
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.\" .Li -1
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.\" .Ec ,
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.\" .Li syscall_err
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.\" holds the error number
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.\" .Po
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.\" see
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.\" .Xr errno 2
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.\" .Pc ,
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.\" or 0 if no error occurred, and
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.\" .Li syscall_rv
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.\" holds the return values. (If the syscall returns only one value, only
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.\" .Li syscall_rv[0]
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.\" is useful.) The tracing process can modify any of these with
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.\" .Dv PT_WRITE_U ;
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.\" only some modifications are useful.
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.\" .Pp
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.\" On entry to a syscall,
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.\" .Li syscall_num
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.\" can be changed, and the syscall actually performed will correspond to
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.\" the new number (it is the responsibility of the tracing process to fill
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.\" in
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.\" .Li syscall_args
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.\" appropriately for the new call, but there is no need to modify
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.\" .Eo \&
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.\" .Li syscall_nargs
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.\" .Ec ).
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.\" If the new syscall number is 0, no syscall is actually performed;
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.\" instead,
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.\" .Li syscall_err
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.\" and
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.\" .Li syscall_rv
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.\" are passed back to the traced process directly (and therefore should be
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.\" filled in). If the syscall number is otherwise out of range, a dummy
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.\" syscall which simply produces an
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.\" .Er ENOSYS
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.\" error is effectively performed.
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.\" .Pp
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.\" On exit from a syscall, only
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.\" .Li syscall_err
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.\" and
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.\" .Li syscall_rv
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.\" can usefully be changed; they are set to the values returned by the
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.\" syscall and will be passed back to the traced process by the normal
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.\" syscall return mechanism.
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.El
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.Sh ERRORS
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Some requests can cause
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.Fn ptrace
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to return
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.Li -1
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as a non-error value; to disambiguate,
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.Va errno
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can be set to 0 before the call and checked afterwards. The possible
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errors are:
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.Bl -tag -width 4n
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.It Bq Er ESRCH
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No process having the specified process ID exists.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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A process attempted to use
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.Dv PT_ATTACH
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on itself.
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.It
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The
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.Fa request
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was not a legal request on this machine architecture.
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.\" .It
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.\" The
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.\" .Fa addr
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.\" to
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.\" .Dv PT_READ_U
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.\" or
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.\" .Dv PT_WRITE_U
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.\" was not
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.\" .Li int Ns \&-aligned.
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.It
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The signal number (in
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.Fa data )
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to
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.Dv PT_CONTINUE
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.\" or
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.\" .Dv PT_SYSCALL
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was neither 0 nor a legal signal number.
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.It
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.Dv PT_GETREGS ,
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.Dv PT_SETREGS ,
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.Dv PT_GETFPREGS ,
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or
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.Dv PT_SETFPREGS
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was attempted on a process with no valid register set. (This is
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normally true only of system processes.)
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.El
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.It Bq Er EBUSY
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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.Dv PT_ATTACH
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was attempted on a process that was already being traced.
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.It
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A request attempted to manipulate a process that was being traced by
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some process other than the one making the request.
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.It
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A request (other than
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.Dv PT_ATTACH )
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specified a process that wasn't stopped.
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.El
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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A request (other than
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.Dv PT_ATTACH )
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attempted to manipulate a process that wasn't being traced at all.
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.It
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An attempt was made to use
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.Dv PT_ATTACH
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on a process in violation of the requirements listed under
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.Dv PT_ATTACH
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above.
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.El
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sigaction 2 ,
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.Xr signal 7
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.Sh BUGS
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On the SPARC, the PC is set to the provided PC value for
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.Dv PT_CONTINUE
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and similar calls, but the NPC is set willy-nilly to 4 greater than the
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PC value. Using
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.Dv PT_GETREGS
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and
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.Dv PT_SETREGS
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to modify the PC, passing
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.Li (caddr_t)1
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to
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.Eo \&
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.Fn ptrace
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.Ec ,
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should be able to sidestep this.
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.\" .Pp
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.\" When using
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.\" .Dv PT_SYSCALL ,
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.\" there is no easy way to tell whether the traced process stopped because
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.\" it made a syscall or because a signal was sent at a moment that it just
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.\" happened to have valid-looking garbage in its
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.\" .Dq Li "struct mdproc" .
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