[Crash-utility] "gdb" by itself ought to put crash into a "gdb" mode

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Wed Mar 14 17:42:19 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> On 03/14/12 06:37, Dave Anderson wrote:
> 
> Sorry.  I polished the patch, but it still fails here:
> 
> $7 = (struct _IO_FILE *) 0x7ffff750f7e0
> (gdb) n
> 1001                    pc->stdpipe = NULL;
> (gdb)
> 1002                    if (pc->stdpipe_pid &&
> PID_ALIVE(pc->stdpipe_pid)) {
> (gdb)
> 1003                            while (!waitpid(pc->stdpipe_pid,
> &waitstatus, WNOHANG))
> (gdb) p pc->stdpipe_pid
> $8 = 4180
> $ ps -f -p 4180
> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> bkorb     4180  4168  0 10:20 pts/1    00:00:00 /usr/bin/less -E -X
> -Ps -- MORE -
> 
> 
> So there's some magic going on that is expecting gdb to produce some output
> or do something that will make more or less stop.  Unless you know, it'll be
> for another day.

No, I don't...

Dave
 




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