[torquedev] Issues debugging fork statements in MOM using GNU debugger

[Prakash Velayutham]

Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:40:30AM -0500, Prakash Velayutham alleged:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do not know if this is the right list, but hopefully someone here can 
>> help me. I am trying to understand the working of Torque system and so 
>> going through the source code. I have been pretty successful with GDB in 
>> cases of forking (where I want to follow the child), but for some reason 
>> it does not seem to work at the MOM end. Especially inside the 
>> TMomFinalizeJob2 routine, none of my tricks to get to follow the child 
>> process is successful. Could anyone here lead me in the right direction 
>> to achieve this?
>>     
>
> I don't know how to do it directly either.  I do most of that printf
> and logging.  You can also use abort() at strategic locations and
> inspect the core file.  And valgrind can conviently run gdb on the child
> processes for you.
Is it possible to debug the MOM code interactively (meaning real-time 
debugging) using valgrind running gdb? Could you give me an example of 
that usage? Just a newbie with valgrind...

Prakash