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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:13:50 +0300
From:      pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        vasanth raonaik <vasanth.raonaik@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Debugging init process.
Message-ID:  <a31046fc0903101313n5bbf11b4gc217c703154ebd88@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/3/10 vasanth raonaik <vasanth.raonaik@gmail.com>:
> Hello Team,
>
> I need to debug init process. I am not able to attach init to gdb and it
> throws
>

That is because init is a system process, which you cannot trace by design
(see ptrace(2)).

$ ps -o flags -p 1
      F
10004200

, where from ps(1):
               P_SYSTEM            0x00200      System proc: no sigs,
stats or swapping

-- 
wbr,
pluknet



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