Re: debugging a process

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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Paul-Ovidiu Dascalu
> <paul.dascalu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Paul
>> /usr/bin/firefox is not an executable file to begin with.
> Yes this thing I got in my search also it is not an executable.

Actually, it is an executable, but not the actual firefox binary one
would expect.  Instead it is a symbolic link to a  wrapper script
which executes the first line of the file /bin/sh(a link to dash in
Ubuntu) which later calls the firefox binary executable.  Yeah talk
about bad luck in picking a program to mess with.

--
John

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