Re: (interposers): How to workaround the "strong symbols" problem?

On 2025-01-20, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

In article <vmlmkp$36kmo$1@dont-email.me>,
Kalevi Kolttonen <kalevi@kolttonen.fi> wrote:

Muttley@dastardlyhq.org wrote:

On a slight tangent, does anyone know of a good
reference for how to use the ptrace() call on
Linux? The man page is somewhat obtuse.

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Just guessing, but I can only think of reading
gdb source code.

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Or strace.

Since ptrace is something implemented in the kernel, a peek at that
could also be useful, where the documentation is lacking.

This site is very nice for hyperlinked, cross-indexed browsing,
featuring pretty much every version of the kernel, ever,
from linux 0.01 to current (6.13.x, presently).

https://elixir.bootlin.com/

You can jump to uses and definitions of identifiers and such.
I use this as a resource in the context of embedded work.

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