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Date:      Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:29:34 -0400
From:      Kurt Miller <truk@optonline.net>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: debugging 1.4 and execve
Message-ID:  <06c101c49681$cf920f60$1d0110ac@focus>
References:  <033d01c495e6$09de3230$1d0110ac@focus> <20040909080415.GA49910@phantom.cris.net>

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From: "Alexey Zelkin" <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>
> Hehe.  It was funny expirience.  The only way (I did not have
> much time to look in this issue at  the begining) to avoid it --
> to avoid calling execve().  java_md.c has function named
> SetLibraryPath() IIRC, so you need to debug this function and
> find which LD_LIBRARY_PATH it wants to have.  Next you need
> to exit debuger, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to exactly this value, and
> re-execute debuger.  java will look up for new library path, compare
> with already set one, and if they are equal (internally it means
> what execve() is called already) execution will be continued without
> execve(), and as result without any gdb traps.

Thanks, it did the trick.

> ps: one more trick, as result of not having of any gdb traps, you'll be
> having working 'thread*' command functionality.  I do not know about
> OpenBSD, but it should be easy to port simple patch for gdb (it
> should be in old ports tree) from FreeBSD, which support user threads
> listings and switching from inside gdb.  Very useful thing while debuging
> of heavy threaded applications (like, jvm) ;-)

Yea, not having gdb thread* in OpenBSD has been an issue for me in
the past. I'll take a look at porting freebsd-uthread.c over.

-Kurt



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