<snip> it would be nice to have a non-supervisor-state thingy that did this - similar to what is available via PTRACE. </snip>
I think (but I am not sure) that PTRACE would fall into the category of "returning to the user in their state". That is very different than an exit, not particularly different than returning from a PC or an SVC. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN