On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.pri...@profihost.ag> wrote: > Am 10.05.2013 09:42, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: >> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:12:39AM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: >> 3. Either use gdb or an LD_PRELOAD library that catches exit(3) and >> _exit(2) and dumps core using abort(3). Make sure core dumps are >> enabled. > > LD_PRELOAD sounds good can you point me to such a lib?
$ cat /tmp/catchexit.c #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> void exit(int status) { const char msg[] = "*** CAUGHT EXIT, DUMPING CORE ***\n"; write(2, msg, sizeof msg); abort(); } void _exit(int status) __attribute__((alias("exit"))); $ gcc -o catchexit.so -shared -fPIC -std=gnu99 catchexit.c $ LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/catchexit.so x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -enable-kvm -cpu host -vga asdf Unknown vga type: asdf *** CAUGHT EXIT, DUMPING CORE *** Aborted (core dumped) Make sure to give the absolute path to catchexit.so. Also keep in mind that this does not catch a normal return from main() or possibly other ways of terminating the process. You can hook more library functions, if necessary. Stefan