question - inconsistent results from ptrace

[Roni Simonian]

Thank you for the response, Roland!
> Off hand, it seems more likely there is some authentic variation
> between runs for whatever reason than that this has something to do with
> ptrace.
>   
I agree, it most likely has to do with the process itself. I am puzzled 
because something as simple as "hello world!" does not have any 
asynchronous  events and should be totally reproducible.

> Have you tried making your program look at the tracee's PC every time (use
> PTRACE_GETREGS or PTRACE_PEEKUSR) and emit it so you can compare two differing
> runs a little more meaningfully?
>   
I'll do as you suggest and will let you know the results.

Talk to you soon,

Roni.