From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 3 18:56:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FC137B41A for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:56:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0188.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.188] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16sxQS-0003ty-00; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:56:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3CABC0CA.9ED1EEDB@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:56:10 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ramkumar Chinchani Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ptracing each other References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? By definition, doing this must result in infinite mutual recursion, as process B traces process A tracing process B tracing process A ... ad infinitum. What problem are you trying to solve, that you think you can solve by hacing processes mutually tracing each other? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message