DCMD_PROC_WAITSTOP

Hold off the calling process until the process that's associated with the file descriptor reaches a point of interest.

#include <sys/procfs.h>

#define DCMD_PROC_WAITSTOP32  (__DIOF(_DCMD_PROC, __PROC_SUBCMD_PROCFS + 6, procfs_status32))
#define DCMD_PROC_WAITSTOP64  (__DIOF(_DCMD_PROC, __PROC_SUBCMD_PROCFS + 6, procfs_status64))
#define DCMD_PROC_WAITSTOP    (__DIOF(_DCMD_PROC, __PROC_SUBCMD_PROCFS + 6, procfs_status))

Note: The generic command maps onto the 64-bit version, unless you're compiling for a 32-bit architecture and you define WANT_OLD_DEVCTLS before you include <sys/procfs.h>.

The arguments to devctl() are:

Argument	Value
`filedes`	A file descriptor for the process.
`dcmd`	DCMD_PROC_WAITSTOP
`dev_data_ptr`	A pointer to a procfs_status structure
`n_bytes`	`sizeof(procfs_status)`
`dev_info_ptr`	NULL

You must have opened the file descriptor for writing. Use the DCMD_PROC_RUN command to set up the point of interest. If you don't want to block the calling process, use DCMD_PROC_EVENT instead of DCMD_PROC_WAITSTOP.

The argument is a pointer to a procfs_status structure (see debug_thread_t in <sys/debug.h>) that's filled with status information on return. For example:

procfs_status my_status;

devctl( fd, DCMD_PROC_WAITSTOP, &my_status, sizeof my_status, NULL);

For more information about the contents of this structure, see “Thread information,” earlier in this chapter.