Re: Hacking gnumach to track parental relationship of tasks

[Samuel Thibault]

Ludovic Courtès, le Mon 09 Sep 2013 18:48:03 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> skribis:
> > Ludovic Courtès, le Sat 07 Sep 2013 22:04:06 +0200, a écrit :
> >> However, wouldn’t it be preferable to fix it by interposing on
> >> ‘task_create’ calls, à la clans & chiefs?  (IIUC, this can be done with
> >> by setting the TASK_KERNEL_PORT of a task.)
> >
> > Apparently task_create is a kernel trap.
> 
> Isn’t rpctrace able to interpose on it?

I don't think there is any way to interpose a trap.

It probably happens that libc nicely uses the RPC, but nothing prevents
a process from raising a trap.

Samuel