NAME¶

perl-stacktrace - Stack trace

VERSION¶

version 0.09

SYNOPSIS¶

  perl-stacktrace [option] pid
    -m      Prints a gdb script
    -v      Verbose debugging
    -c      Additionally, prints C stacktrace
    --help  Show this help
    --exec  exec() into gdb

DESCRIPTION¶

perl-stacktrace prints Perl stack traces of Perl threads for a given Perl process. For each Perl frame, the full file name and line number are printed.

For example, a stack dump of a running perl program:

    $ ps x | grep cpan
    24077 pts/12   T      0:01 /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/cpan
    24093 pts/12   S+     0:00 grep cpan
    $ perl-stacktrace 24077
    0x00d73416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
    /usr/local/bin/cpan:11
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/App/Cpan.pm:364
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/App/Cpan.pm:295
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/CPAN.pm:339
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/Term/ReadLine.pm:198