On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Rajat Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
> BTW, ptrace is about when the process to be debugged is started from > within gdb process. PArent process debugging the child process. > > How does gdb attach to a process that it has not started, in other > words, how does it attach to a process that is not its child? > > The debugged process effectively becomes a child of GDB when PTRACE_ATTACH is used. More info in the man page. - P
