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zhenjing
zhenjing

Reputation: 145

How to know which process(stat: T) is attached by gdb?

When a process is attached by gdb, the stat of the process is "T", like:

root      6507  0.0  0.0  67896   952 ?        Ss   12:01   0:00 /mytest
root      6508  0.0  0.0 156472  7120 ?        Sl   12:01   0:00 /mytest
root     26994  0.0  0.0  67896   956 ?        Ss   19:59   0:00 /mytest
root     26995  0.0  0.0 156460  7116 ?        Tl   19:59   0:00 /mytest
root     27833  0.0  0.0  97972 24564 pts/2    S+   20:00   0:00 gdb /mytest

From the above, 26995 may be debuging. How can I know 26995 is debug or not? Or can I know which process is attached by gdb(27833)

pstree -p 27833 --- show gdb(27833)

Another question: How to know a process(stat: T) is attached by which gdb(PID)? In most siduation, I am not the peoson who is debuging the process.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9891

Answers (3)

Employed Russian
Employed Russian

Reputation: 213955

The T in ps output stands for "being ptrace()d". So that process (26995) is being traced by something. That something is most often either GDB, or strace.

So yes, if you know that you are only running GDB and not strace, and if you see a single process in T state, then you know that you are debugging that process.

You could also ask GDB which process(es) it is debugging:

(gdb) info process
(gdb) info inferior

Update As Matthew Slattery correctly noted, T just means the process is stopped, and not that it is being ptrace()d.

So a better solution is to do this:

 grep '^TracerPid:' /proc/*/status | grep -v ':.0'
 /proc/7657/status:TracerPid:    31069

From above output you can tell that process 7657 is being traced by process 31069. This answers both "which process is being debugger" and "which debugger is debugging what".

Upvotes: 9

zhenjing
zhenjing

Reputation: 145

/proc file system is a telent design of Linux. Many process real-time information can be found from /proc/{PID}/.

Another question: How to know a process(stat: T) is attached by which gdb(PID)? In most siduation, I am not the peoson who is debuging the process.

For this question, we can check /proc/{PID}/status file to get the answer.

root     14616  0.0  0.0 36152  908 ?        Ss   Jun28   0:00 /mytest
root     14617  0.5  0.0 106192 7648 ?       Sl   Jun28 112:45 /mytest
tachyon   2683  0.0  0.0 36132 1008 ?        Ss   11:22   0:00 /mytest
tachyon   4276  0.0  0.0 76152 20728 pts/42  S+   11:22   0:00 gdb /mytest
tachyon   2684  0.0  0.0 106136 7140 ?       Tl   11:22   0:00 /mytest

host1-8>cat /proc/2684/status

Name:   mytest
State:  T (tracing stop)
SleepAVG:       88%
Tgid:   2684
Pid:    2684
PPid:   2683
TracerPid:      4276
.......

Thus we know 2684 is debug by process 4276.

Upvotes: 6

ks1322
ks1322

Reputation: 35865

You can find out this info from ps axf output.

 1357 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
 1935 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: root@pts/0
 1994 pts/0    Ss     0:00      \_ -bash
 2237 pts/0    T      0:00          \_ gdb /bin/ls
 2242 pts/0    T      0:00          |   \_ /bin/ls
 2243 pts/0    R+     0:00          \_ ps axf

Here process 2242 is being debuged by gdb process 2237.

Upvotes: 0

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