活着的时候用pstack,死了看dmesg,让我们看看pstack的样子吧:
[muten003@wknode ~]$ which pstack
/usr/bin/pstack
[muten003@wknode ~]$ file /usr/bin/pstack
/usr/bin/pstack: symbolic link to `gstack'
[muten003@wknode ~]$ which gstack
/usr/bin/gstack
[muten003@wknode ~]$ file /usr/bin/gstack
/usr/bin/gstack: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
[muten003@wknode ~]$ more /usr/bin/gstack
#!/bin/sh
if test $# -ne 1; then
echo "Usage: `basename $0 .sh` <process-id>" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
if test ! -r /proc/$1; then
echo "Process $1 not found." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
# GDB doesn't allow "thread apply all bt" when the process isn't
# threaded; need to peek at the process to determine if that or the
# simpler "bt" should be used.
backtrace="bt"
if test -d /proc/$1/task ; then
# Newer kernel; has a task/ directory.
if test `/bin/ls /proc/$1/task | /usr/bin/wc -l` -gt 1 2>/dev/null ; then
backtrace="thread apply all bt"
fi
elif test -f /proc/$1/maps ; then
# Older kernel; go by it loading libpthread.
if /bin/grep -e libpthread /proc/$1/maps > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
backtrace="thread apply all bt"
fi
fi
GDB=${GDB:-/usr/bin/gdb}
# Run GDB, strip out unwanted noise.
# --readnever is no longer used since .gdb_index is now in use.
$GDB --quiet -nx $GDBARGS /proc/$1/exe $1 <<EOF 2>&1 |
set width 0
set height 0
set pagination no
$backtrace
EOF
/bin/sed -n \
-e 's/^\((gdb) \)*//' \
-e '/^#/p' \
-e '/^Thread/p'
[muten003@wknode ~]$ which dmesg
/usr/bin/dmesg
[muten003@wknode ~]$ file /usr/bin/dmesg
/usr/bin/dmesg: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=8b0c53b5d6f76a923ef6b22a266719fd3ab0eb5b, stripped