Devi solo chiamare gdb con l'eseguibile (non importa se è tuo o di terzi). Ecco un esempio in cui eseguo il debug del comando ls e imposto un punto di interruzione nella libreria (condivisa) (condivisa). Questo esempio utilizza gdb 6.8 che supporta la differita punti di interruzione (in corso) che rende questo facile:
gdb /bin/ls
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) b write
Function "write" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
Breakpoint 1 (write) pending.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /bin/ls
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
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(no debugging symbols found)
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread 0x7f98d2d23780 (LWP 7029)]
[Switching to Thread 0x7f98d2d23780 (LWP 7029)]
Breakpoint 1, 0x00007f98d2264bb0 in write() from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
Come si può vedere gdb gestisce automaticamente tutte le discussioni utilizzati dal file eseguibile. Non devi fare niente di speciale per i thread lì. Il punto di interruzione funzionerà in qualsiasi thread.
In alternativa, se si desidera connettere il debugger a un'applicazione già in esecuzione (io uso tail -f/tmp/ttt qui come esempio):
ps ux | grep tail
lothar 8496 0.0 0.0 9352 804 pts/3 S+ 12:38 0:00 tail -f /tmp/ttt
lothar 8510 0.0 0.0 5164 840 pts/4 S+ 12:39 0:00 grep tail
gdb
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) attach 8496
Attaching to program: /usr/bin/tail, process 8496
Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f24853f56e0 (LWP 8496)]
Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
(no debugging symbols found)
0x00007f2484d2bb50 in nanosleep() from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) b write
Breakpoint 1 at 0x7f2484d57bb0
(gdb) c
Continuing.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f24853f56e0 (LWP 8496)]
Breakpoint 1, 0x00007f2484d57bb0 in write() from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
I usato dbx su AIX. se dici che gdb può farlo con applicazioni filettate .. poi dbx fa schifo alla grande .. e sono stato un pazzo totale ad usarlo tutto questo tempo. –
Sad gdb non funziona correttamente su AIX ... AIX fa schifo .. –
Non so dbx, ma dovrebbe avere caratteristiche simili – lothar