Re: siginfo of traced child to parent process

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 02:41:41PM -0700, Ranga Iyengar wrote:
> I wanted to know if there is a way to get the
> siginfo_t of a child process from a parent process.
> The child process is traced by the parent process
> using ptrace system call and if the child is stopped
> because of SIGSEGV or SIGFPE, the address of the
> instruction that caused the exception is available to
> the child from the signal handler thro' the siginfo
> structure. Is there any way of getting this
> info(siginfo) to the parent. The parent attaches to
> the child in the same way 'gdb' attaches to the
> debugged programs.
> 
> I'm using linux kernel 2.4.18

There is in 2.5 - it's called PTRACE_GETSIGINFO.  There isn't in 2.4.18
though.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer