From c6620c6eea9e440233c491823ed89ff9a2e10c8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ivo Raisr Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 09:09:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Provide a paragraph about Solaris agent thread in advanced concepts n-i-bz git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@16132 --- docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml b/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml index ee13ecf128..a5ac0cf264 100644 --- a/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml +++ b/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml @@ -1057,6 +1057,12 @@ $5 = 36 OS X or Android. + Unblocking processes blocked in system calls is implemented + via agent thread on Solaris. This is quite a different approach + than using ptrace on Linux, but leads to equivalent result - Valgrind + gdbserver is invoked. Note that agent thread is a Solaris OS + feature and cannot be disabled. + -- 2.47.2