Thanks for the tip, I'll look into that. To clarify: Yes I'm writing my own tool, the aim is to trace instructions and dump them to a pid.out But in each parent I'd like to intercept the fork and simply dump a keyword in the pid<parent>.out that says FORK_OCCURED, makes sense?
Tommy Bugzilla from t...@compton.nu wrote: > > On 29/06/11 14:29, janjust wrote: > >> Does anyone have any pointers on how to catch when a fork in a client >> occurs? Precisely my aim is to order the PIDs with respect to when they >> occurred. > > Presumably you're righting a tool, and want to know how the tool should > get called when a fork occurs? I can't see any other context in which > the question makes sense, but you didn't actually say what the context > of your question was. > > What you need to look at is VG_(atfork) in include/pub_tool_libcproc.h > anyway, which will let you register callbacks to be called at various > points in the fork process. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) > http://compton.nu/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Valgrind-users mailing list > Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/catching-a-fork%28%29-in-client-tp31954761p31954980.html Sent from the Valgrind - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
