[comp.unix.questions] Debugging multi-process applications

mikem@rupert.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Mike Meyer) (02/28/89)

     

    I am looking for information on multi-process debuggers currently being
    used in a Unix environment and also on ways people debug a multi-process 
    application in a Unix System V environment.  Has anyone had any experience
    with or heard of a multi-process debugger for a Unix  System V system?  
    Has anyone used the multi-process debuggers "cdb" or "pi" and what were 
    your impressions?

    Any information/suggestions in this area would be greatly appreciated.



    

karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (02/28/89)

In article <961@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> mikem@rupert.SanDiego.NCR.COM
(Mike Meyer) wrote:
?    I am looking for information on multi-process debuggers currently being
?    used in a Unix environment and also on ways people debug a multi-process 
?    application in a Unix System V environment.  Has anyone had any experience
?    with or heard of a multi-process debugger for a Unix  System V system?  

The AIX version of dbx supports multiple processes.  I haven't used it
very much, but enough to know that it works.  It needs AIX version 2.2
or later.

	Chuck Karish	karish@denali.stanford.edu
			hplabs!hpda!mindcrf!karish

will@presto.ig.com (Will Nelson) (03/09/89)

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>     I am looking for information on multi-process debuggers currently being
>     used in a Unix environment and also on ways people debug a multi-process 
>     application in a Unix System V environment.  Has anyone had any experience
>     with or heard of a multi-process debugger for a Unix  System V system?  
>     Has anyone used the multi-process debuggers "cdb" or "pi" and what were 
>     your impressions?
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>     Any information/suggestions in this area would be greatly appreciated.
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I've used cdb on a Motorola VME box running System V, release 2.
This was the only tool for multi-process debugging we could find
at the time, which was three years ago. It was quite useful,
and Peter Rowell was quite helpful in his support of the product.
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