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Uprobes returns - again

Uprobes returns - again

Posted May 20, 2010 20:03 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
Parent article: Uprobes returns - again

The comment from the linked announcement:
"2. Much better handling of multithreaded programs because of XOL.
Current ptrace based mechanisms use single stepping inline, i.e they
copy back the original instruction on hitting a breakpoint."

Is not true. Maemo functracer (user-space) tool uses XOL with ptrace:
http://stage.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/f/functracer/

I think even the first versions from 2008 did that:
http://stage.maemo.org/pool/diablo/free/f/functracer/


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