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Date:      Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:53:10 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with understanding process state, context switching and signals
Message-ID:  <xzpy94tpqvt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030206112416.GA133@pm514-9.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> (Andrey Simonenko's message of "Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:24:16 %2B0200")
References:  <20030206112416.GA133@pm514-9.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>

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Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> writes:
> In short: I need to stop (suspend) some process from the kernel, when
> that process is in user mode and get information about its general-purpose
> registers, its VM structures, etc.

Have you looked at ptrace(2)?  That's what gdb(1) uses.  You can get
additional information about memory maps etc. from procfs.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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