On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:51, Alexander Leidinger
<alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote:
> Quoting Nate Eldredge <neldre...@math.ucsd.edu> (from Tue, 10 Mar 2009
> 19:02:16 -0700 (PDT)):
>
>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, vasanth raonaik wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Team,
>>>
>>> I need to debug init process. I am not able to attach init to gdb and it
>>> throws
>>
>> As others mentioned, this is explicitly disabled.  You could re-enable it
>> by hacking the kernel, but it could cause other unexpected problems.
>>
>> Alternatively, there's always "printf debugging".
>>
>> What is wrong with init, that you need to debug it?  It's a fairly simple
>> program that's been around for a long time and should be pretty stable.
>
> If this is on -current and depending on the problem, dtrace may be an option
> (I don't know if it special-cases init or not).
>

DTrace is not available for userland processes yet.
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