Re: Finding out when a child process forks or calls exec

2010-05-11 Thread Dan McNulty
. Is there a more efficient way than tracing every system call entry and exit to determine when a child process forks, calls exec, or creates a new LWP? Thanks a lot for your help! -Dan On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (May 03), Dan

Re: Finding out when a child process forks or calls exec

2010-05-04 Thread Dan McNulty
Great! This was what I was looking for. Thanks. -Dan On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (May 03), Dan McNulty said: I am trying to port a debugging tool that uses the ptrace interface from Linux to FreeBSD.  From what I can tell

Finding out when a child process forks or calls exec

2010-05-03 Thread Dan McNulty
Hi all, I am trying to port a debugging tool that uses the ptrace interface from Linux to FreeBSD. From what I can tell, the ptrace interface on FreeBSD is pretty similar to the Linux interface; however, it doesn't appear that the FreeBSD interface generate events when the child process forks,