[ILUG] NPTL ptrace and thread registers

[Alan Ryan]

Thanks Paul, I saw that in ps -L and never thought of it - much appreciated.

Alan

On 13/06/2008, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Alan Ryan wrote:
>
>> execute.  The problem is that I cannot attach to myself; as each 
>> NPTL thread within a process shares a PID (with linuxthreads, each 
>> new thread had a separate PID). So if I can't use PTRACE_GETREG 
>> anymore - how can I get the register state for my various threads?
>
> The tasks still have their own PIDs - look at /proc/..../task e.g.
>
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