ptrace in unix tracing non-child processes

[Chris Torek]

In article <352 at tandem.UUCP> narayan at tandem.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram) writes:
>Has any one considered implementing a `xptrace ()' which can 
>debug non-child processes. This will get one the ability to
>debug processes such as daemons that are already running.

Better: throw out ptrace entirely and adopt the V8/V9 `/proc' approach.
ptrace is ugly and slow; /proc is moderatly odd (ioctls for process
control!?) and much less so.
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