Hi,

I am coming from Windows development background , where I could force a process to break into debugger by putting the __debugbreak() (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f408b4et.aspx) . This halts the process and prompts the user to select one of the debuggers available on the system.

I am looking for something similar on linux. The process will not be run from GDB instead it will be spawned from a running deamon and I would like it to break at some point in code and get load a debugger from where i can do step debugging of the code.

~Thanks

I do not know if what you are asking is possible.

What you could do is use gdb from the command line (or script) in a manner such as the following:
where <app> is the name of the executable application and <pid> is the current process ID of the application.

When debugging an application, you should do so in the area where the application was built so that gdb can reference the source code files. Alternatively, you can specify the -d option (to specify the directory location of the source files) or, and I may be wrong with this, a list of source file directories within ~/.gdbinit. You may want to read more about the latter option here.

Hi dwhitney67,

Sorry for replying so late .. got stuck in some pressing assignment

Got the point you are trying to make but would have loved if had similar functionality in linux. I have tried searching for something similar but all i have got is on the same lines as you have said (

Seems like I will have to live with this limitation.

Thanks,
vaibhav92