Solo necesita llamar a gdb con el ejecutable (no importa si es suyo o de un tercero). Aquí hay un ejemplo donde depuro el comando ls y establezco un punto de interrupción en la biblioteca (compartida) c. En este ejemplo se utiliza GDB 6.8 que soporta diferido puntos de ruptura (pendiente), que lo hace fácil:
gdb /bin/ls
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) b write
Function "write" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
Breakpoint 1 (write) pending.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /bin/ls
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
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[New Thread 0x7f98d2d23780 (LWP 7029)]
[Switching to Thread 0x7f98d2d23780 (LWP 7029)]
Breakpoint 1, 0x00007f98d2264bb0 in write() from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
Como se puede ver GDB gestiona automáticamente todos los hilos utilizados por el ejecutable. No tiene que hacer nada especial para hilos allí. El punto de interrupción funcionará en cualquier hilo.
Alternativamente, si desea adjuntar el depurador a una aplicación ya se está ejecutando (yo uso tail -f/tmp/TTT aquí como un ejemplo):
ps ux | grep tail
lothar 8496 0.0 0.0 9352 804 pts/3 S+ 12:38 0:00 tail -f /tmp/ttt
lothar 8510 0.0 0.0 5164 840 pts/4 S+ 12:39 0:00 grep tail
gdb
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) attach 8496
Attaching to program: /usr/bin/tail, process 8496
Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f24853f56e0 (LWP 8496)]
Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
(no debugging symbols found)
0x00007f2484d2bb50 in nanosleep() from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) b write
Breakpoint 1 at 0x7f2484d57bb0
(gdb) c
Continuing.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f24853f56e0 (LWP 8496)]
Breakpoint 1, 0x00007f2484d57bb0 in write() from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
I utilizó dbx en AIX. si dices que gdb puede hacerlo con aplicaciones de subprocesos ... entonces dbx apesta a lo grande ... y he sido un completo tonto por usarlo todo este tiempo. –
Sad gdb no funciona correctamente en AIX ... AIX sucks .. –
No sé dbx, pero debería tener características similares – lothar