Re: Debugging a privileged process
Re: Debugging a privileged process
- Subject: Re: Debugging a privileged process
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:32:23 -0800
After the 'attach' you should use the menu 'Debug->Sync with debugger'
to get the gui in sync.
-ChrisF
On Jan 26, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Kaelin Colclasure wrote:
I gave it a quick shot and I can indeed execute my process under the
debugger and with the necessary privileges. But this does raise a few
obvious questions like, "Where to Xcode's preferences get written?"
Since the root user has no home directory, do these get sprayed into
the root of the filesystem somewhere? (Nominally this a more of a
generic Cocoa question, I suppose.)
And on a related topic, I am accustomed to being able to attach GDB
to a running process (designated by PID) and start a debugging
session that way. Yet I did not see any obvious option for doing
this from Xcode... Did I just miss it, or should I file an
enhancement request? :-)
There isn't any UI for doing this, but it is pretty easy to do. Open
the inspector for the executable that you want to debug (just
double-click on the name in the Executable section of the Group
tree). Scroll down to the bottom, and in Launch Configuration,
configure the Debug action, and set After Launching to "Do not start
executable". Then start the debugger, go to the console and type
(gdb) attach PID
Ah yes, that works beautifully. Thanks!
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