OTTOMH: gdb is a command line debugger (it also provides a wire
protocol). ps is the standard *nix process listing tool.
I haven't read the article, sorry.
On Tue 03 Dec 2013 12:53:19 PM EST, Chris Mills wrote:
The MDN article has got an "unfinished draft” flag at the top of it, and the
article summary is sadly lacking - it doesn’t really tell you what the tools are.
Can someone give me a two sentence summary of what gdb/ps do, and let me know
what’s missing from the article? I’d be happy to help improve it.
Chris Mills
Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
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On 3 Dec 2013, at 16:44, Dave Hylands <dhyla...@mozilla.com> wrote:
Hi Soledad,
There is no other documentation for b2g-ps.
Regular ps produces way more output than most people need.
It also shows all of the child-content processes as merely plugin-container
Basically, the single most useful thing that b2g-ps does is to show the app
name associated with a given child-content process.
And it only shows the b2g process and its direct descendants.
b2g-ps passes on any options to ps, the most useful of which is the -t option.
This allows you to see the threads within a process.
There is another related utility called b2g-info, which dumps out a bunch of
memory information about the b2g processes as well. We include the
b2g-info output when you grab an about:memory dump.
Dave Hylands
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From: "Andrew Overholt" <overh...@mozilla.com>
To: "Soledad Penadés" <s...@mozilla.com>
Cc: dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org, "Dave Hylands" <dhyla...@mozilla.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 7:15:00 AM
Subject: Re: Is b2g-ps documented anywhere?
Dave can probably provide some info here.
On Tue 03 Dec 2013 06:34:42 AM EST, Soledad Penadés wrote:
Hi all
Heard about b2g-ps for the first time thanks to Kumar's answer to
Bosko, and it intrigued me.
However I can hardly find any documentation other than its source[1]
and a page in MDN[2]. Seems like a wrapper around the native ps to
discriminate against non b2g processes, am I right?
[1] Here's its source, I believe:
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gonk-misc/blob/master/b2g-ps
[2] MDN debugging with GDB
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Debugging/Debugging_B2G_using_gdb
thanks!
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