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.\" gstack manual page.
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.TH GSTACK 1 "Feb 15 2008" "Red Hat Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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gstack \- print a stack trace of a running process
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B gstack
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pid
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\f3gstack\f1 attaches to the active process named by the \f3pid\f1 on
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the command line, and prints out an execution stack trace.  If ELF
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symbols exist in the binary (usually the case unless you have run
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strip(1)), then symbolic addresses are printed as well.
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If the process is part of a thread group, then \f3gstack\f1 will print
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out a stack trace for each of the threads in the group.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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nm(1), ptrace(2), gdb(1)
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.SH AUTHORS
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Ross Thompson <ross@whatsis.com>
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Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>