Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 22:42:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Stack trace routine for running programs Message-ID: <199503092142.WAA08476@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199503091623.JAA25172@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 9, 95 09:23:19 am
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As Nate Williams wrote: > > Does anyone know of a way to do a stack dump (trace) of a running > program while *NOT* in the debugger. We are trying to debug a program > that behaves very differently when it is running under the debugger, and > being able to see a call stack would be very helpful. kill -ILL (or -ABRT) <pid> :-) I believed our gdb can `attach' to a running process, but all i get is either ``permission denied'' (running as a normal user) or ``read-only filesystem'' (as root). Perhaps our /proc file system? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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