Re: [Libguestfs] simplify debugging of guestfsd
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:40:35PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
gdb is certainly more advanced, something like 'var="gdb
--readnow -ex r
-ex bt -ex quit' ; $var guestfsd' would be good enough, or gdb
--command=FILE.
As you say, without adding debuginfo into guest the backtrace would be
not that useful. But its better than nothing.
glibc -- on Fedora -- prints a stack trace on exit, so we've not had a
need to get one out using gdb. A core dump would be the really useful
thing for us.
Rich.
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