Peb->BeingDebugged and a debugger messing up
Markus Hitter
mah at jump-ing.de
Mon Sep 8 08:59:48 CDT 2008
Hello all,
after wrestling severals days with Wine's debugging capabilities I
think I need some advice.
First, regardless wether my app (Catia) is launched with wine or
winedbg, Peb->BeingDebugged is always False. To the best of my
efforts I can't find the code snippet which sets this variable or
does some sort of probing for the correct value. Oddly enough, the
app breaks into the debugger after creation of a new process, anyways.
As the app uses a launcher, I have the chance to set BeingDebugged
explicitely to True. Some time later, after the app created a few
threads, it's back to False. Are there applications out there setting
this flag to what they think is best? Any other possible reasons for
going BeingDebugged back to False while running in winedbg? None of
the functions Wine provides and handles this variable appears to be
called by the application.
Third thing is, Wine's attempt to auto-launch the debugger messes up.
Not only if BeingDebugged is reported wrongly, it obviously runs in
conflicts if launched due to a exception stack overflow. Is it really
wise to launch it by triggering an interrupt in DbgBreakPoint()?
Short of better suggestions, I'd try to make debugger launching
independent from Peb->BeingDebugged (server/kernel should know
better), try to get rid of the interrupt in DbgBreakPoint() and/or
make debugger autolaunching optional (at compile time).
What do you think?
Thanks,
MarKus
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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
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