Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:22:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Steve Watt <steve.removethis@Watt.COM> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Path to executable of current process? Message-ID: <f7pkaj$44l$1@wattres.Watt.COM> References: <78c6bd860707191725r14b8bfe3sf15c1f0e30cf82ca@mail.gmail.com>
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In <78c6bd860707191725r14b8bfe3sf15c1f0e30cf82ca@mail.gmail.com>, Michael B Allen <ioplex@gmail.com> wrote: >Actually what I'm *really* trying to do is port some code that invokes >GDB to do a backtrace and I need to give GDB the path to the >executable of the current process (e.g. on linux this is >/proc/<pid>/exe) and the pid of the process to trace (easy - getpid). >The first argument is trickey since FreeBSD frequently does not have a >/proc filesystem. So it seems kvm_getargv should have this path no? # mount_procfs proc /proc # /bin/ls -l /proc/<pid>/file Note that if the executable on disk gets replaced, this won't work. -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.5" / 37N 20' 15.3" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32-ARIN Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices...
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