Debugging init process.

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Nate Eldredge <neldredge at math.ucsd.edu> (from Tue, 10 Mar 2009  
19:02:16 -0700 (PDT)):

> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, vasanth raonaik wrote:
>
>> Hello Team,
>>
>> I need to debug init process. I am not able to attach init to gdb and it
>> throws
>
> As others mentioned, this is explicitly disabled.  You could  
> re-enable it by hacking the kernel, but it could cause other  
> unexpected problems.
>
> Alternatively, there's always "printf debugging".
>
> What is wrong with init, that you need to debug it?  It's a fairly  
> simple program that's been around for a long time and should be  
> pretty stable.

If this is on -current and depending on the problem, dtrace may be an  
option (I don't know if it special-cases init or not).

Bye,
Alexander.

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