On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Gaurav Aggarwal <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey All, > > I do have a doubt not exactly on the kernel side but how exactly the 'gdb > attach' command works? Isn't this violates the OS 'memory protection' > objective of prevent a process from accessing memory that has not been > allocated to it and hence to interfere with other processes memory space? > > -- > Regards, > Gaurav Aggarwal > Please read about ptrace system call. You will find many detailed articles explaining how ptrace can be used. Here is one for starters: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6100 Regards, Sandeep.
