[WAY OT] how to gdb a running process *non-intrusively*??

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18Apr2008 08:22, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>   assume i have a symbol-laden copy of the executable, and that all i
>> want to do is, in real time, print variable contents as the process
>> continues to run with no interference of the process itself.  thanks
>> muchly.
>
> That would violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.  :-)

Indeed. And that is why bugs that go away under debuggers and in the
presence of debugging "print" statements are called "Heisenbugs".

Cheers,
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