Re: seg fault - how to track down cause!

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On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 17:51 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> yes!  use ps *** to get parent pid to follow, then i think the chant
> is
> something like,
> 
> strace -f -p <pid>
> 
> note, a lot of system call info gets dumped, but IMHO, the needle is
> in
> that haystack!
> 
> you might want to log output to a file, ...
> 
> also, i loved to find a failing clue and then pipe strace -f ... |
> grep
> <myclue>
> 

Or you can attach a gdb instance to it and watch the segfault happening,
get a backtrace etc. That's what debuggers are for.

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poc

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