If the thought of something makes me giggle for more than 15 seconds, its probably a bad idea...

Posted by nuxi on 2008-Mar-04 at 21:46:59 in Computers (Login to reply)

nuxi@junkers:~(0)$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
4866 pts/10 00:00:00 bash
4871 pts/10 00:00:00 \_ ps
nuxi@junkers:~(0)$ gdb /usr/bin/gdb 4872
GNU gdb 6.7.1-debian
Copyright (C) 2007 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 "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
I refuse to debug myself!
/home/nuxi/4872: No such file or directory.
(gdb)

Apparently I have to be more clever:

nuxi@junkers:~(0)$ gdb /usr/bin/gdb
GNU gdb 6.7.1-debian
Copyright (C) 2007 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 "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb)
(1)+ Stopped gdb /usr/bin/gdb
nuxi@junkers:~(148)$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
4866 pts/10 00:00:00 bash
4885 pts/10 00:00:00 \_ gdb
4887 pts/10 00:00:00 \_ ps
nuxi@junkers:~(0)$ fg
gdb /usr/bin/gdb
set args /usr/bin/gdb 4885
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gdb /usr/bin/gdb 4885
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled)
(New Thread 0xb7ccb6b0 (LWP 4888))
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
GNU gdb 6.7.1-debian
Copyright (C) 2007 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 "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
Attaching to program: /usr/bin/gdb, process 4885


WIN!