We currently use the ptrace facility in a project where we need
to twiddle a process' state before it is really running.  We also
need to inspect a process' state right before it exits.  From the
man pages and experimentation, it doesn't look like ptraced
processes allow this -- once the process exits, no further
ptrace operations can be done on it, such as examining its
registers.

  I can't think of any good way around this that does not require
recompiling the executable (or dynamic library).  Any good ideas?

  Thanks.

  Brian