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Asked: 2026-05-26T02:05:41+00:00

Trying to build a debugger in C for fuzzing. Basically in linux, I just

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Trying to build a debugger in C for fuzzing.

Basically in linux, I just want to start a process via fork and then execve(), then monitor this process to see if it crashes after 1 second.

On linux, is this done via creating the process then monitoring the SIGNALs it generates for anything that looks like a crash? Or is it about monitoring the application and? I’m not sure.

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    Use the ptrace(2) system call:

    While being traced, the child will stop each time a signal is
    delivered, even if the signal is being ignored. (The exception is
    SIGKILL, which has its usual effect.) The parent will be notified at
    its next wait(2) and may inspect and modify the child process while it
    is stopped. The parent then causes the child to continue, optionally
    ignoring the delivered signal (or even delivering a different signal
    instead).

    The signals you should be interested in, regarding to the process having crashed are SIGSEGV (restricted memory access), SIGBUS (unaligned data access), SIGILL (illegal instruction), SIGFPE (illegal floating-point operation), etc.

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