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Old 03-29-2005, 04:57 AM   #1
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stack trace of a process


Can anyone pl tell me how to trace the stack of a process ?
 
Old 04-01-2005, 01:30 PM   #2
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strace and lsof are good utilities for this task.
 
Old 04-01-2005, 09:11 PM   #3
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Also, if you have a process that is crashing, it will generate a core file (you'll need to set ulimit -c unlimited or whatever you want the max size of the core file to be -- this assumes bash). You can load it up into gdb with gdb <executable> <corefile> and you can then use the backtrace command to show the stack frames existent at the time of the crash.
 
  


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