Bug 1871 - Syscall tracing option changes must be tracked
Summary: Syscall tracing option changes must be tracked
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: frysk
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P1 normal
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Blocks: 1524
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Reported: 2005-11-15 21:41 UTC by Jeff Johnston
Modified: 2006-11-28 16:47 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Johnston 2005-11-15 21:41:54 UTC
At present, to set syscall tracing, the Task requires that the traceSyscall
boolean be set to true.  When a task is continued via sendContinue (), a check
is made to see if the traceSyscall boolean is set true and if yes, instead of
using PTRACE_CONT, PTRACE_SYSCALL is used.  The problem is that in addition to
this, the PTRACE options require changing.  The PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD option
must be set prior to running with PTRACE_SYSCALL.  Without setting the option,
the low-level wait logic can't determine a syscall event has occurred and treats
the event as a regular trap.  Currently, the options only get set in Task
states: attached and startRunning.  If a frysk-user tries to set the syscall
trace after a stop occurs, a signal for example, the options do not get set 
before continuing and frysk treatst the syscall event as a trap.  

A suggested method might be to register option changes and check when continuing
whether PTRACE_SETOPTIONS must be performed.