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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Ramkumar Chinchani <rc27@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>,
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Subject: Re: Ptracing each other
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but I'm confused.. 
to trace a program you need to be gdb
(or similar)  why would one gdb gdb when it's gdbing you?
Maybe you need to explain WHY rather than WHAT.


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Ramkumar Chinchani wrote:

> 
> Track means to basically trace the execution and watch the events that
> occur without any interprocess communication.
> 
> -Ram
> 
> ==> Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>/4:59pm/Apr 3, 2002 <==
> 
> [that depends on what you mean by "track"
> [
> [
> [On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Ramkumar Chinchani wrote:
> [
> [>
> [> Can two processes track each other through the proc file system then?
> [>
> [> I want a scenario where process P1 and P2 track each others execution.
> [>
> [> Is this possible at all?
> [>
> [> Thanks.
> [>
> [> -Ram
> [
> 
> 


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