Enh Req: Make SIGUSR1 stop tracing

Daniel Jacobowitz drow at false.org
Wed Jan 31 19:53:50 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:51:25AM -0800, Jim Avera wrote:
> PROPOSED ENHANCEMENT:
>   1. Make SIGUSR1 tell strace to stop tracing the child process,
> allowing it to run free.
>       (presumably strace would thereupon wait() for the child to exit
> before exiting itself).

Have you considered using strace -p to attach, instead?  Then you can
send strace a C-c, and it will detach before it exits.


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery




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