[PLUG] debug running process

Daniel B. Herrington dherrington at robertmarktech.com
Fri Sep 3 03:37:56 UTC 2010


Dan,

Thanks for the info and the blog link. I've bookmarked that site, as it
seems that may provide some other good info.


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On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 16:31 -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> > It's more difficult, of course, if the parent process starts up
> > multiple long-lived forks or threads, but a single-threaded process
> > won't pose any difficulty.
> 
> The '-f' option causes strace to follow forked child processes, so you
> can attach to the parent before a child with an as-yet-unknown PID
> spawns.
> 
> An aside: anybody else been impressed with the ksplice blog? They've
> had some great articles there.
> 
> An strace primer:
> http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/08/strace-the-sysadmins-microscope/
> 
> My favorite, debugging a single bit flip memory error:
> http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/06/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays/
> 




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