On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Paul-Ovidiu Dascalu
paul.dasc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Paul
/usr/bin/firefox is not an executable file to begin with.
Yes this thing I got in my search also it is not an executable.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM, John Mahoney jmaho...@waav.com wrote:
Actually, it is an executable, but not the actual firefox binary one
would expect. Instead it is a symbolic link to a wrapper script
which executes the first line of the file /bin/sh(a link to dash in
Ubuntu) which
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:03 PM, mohit verma mohit89m...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:44 PM, mohit verma mohit89m...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
i am debugging the same firefox program. it is showing 33 threads running
in my system .i switch to each thread and type the command bt to
I tried to debug a running process.
I am taking firefox as an example.
So I wanted to see it in detail as how is Linux kernel communicating with it.
Here is my output
such as which kernel symbol is used in this process what other macros
it is using
any thing from kernel that is affecting it like
Hi Tapas,
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to debug a running process.
I am taking firefox as an example.
For debugging purposes you can start with a `lighter' program.
So I wanted to see it in detail as how is Linux kernel communicating with
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Baluta daniel.bal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Daniel
For debugging purposes you can start with a `lighter' program.
can you suggest some thing.Which you can consider as lighter program.
In order for gdb to dump meaningful results the program must be compiled
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Paul-Ovidiu Dascalu
paul.dasc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Paul
/usr/bin/firefox is not an executable file to begin with.
Yes this thing I got in my search also it is not an executable.
Also you can you 'strace' on a program to see the the system calls and
signal a
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Baluta daniel.bal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Daniel
For debugging purposes you can start with a `lighter' program.
can you suggest some thing.Which you can consider as lighter program.
Hi Tapas,
For that you probably need to compile Firefox or whatever other application
you need to analyze with debug support (-g flag) and optimization disabled
(-O0 most likely).
If you want to go further down then you will also need libraries you
compiled with debug support or at leas the
