Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

[Chris Rees]

On 4 Apr 2012 06:41, "Julian Elischer" <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 4/2/12 10:12 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
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>> On Monday, April 02, 2012 12:39:26 pm Yuri wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/02/2012 05:31, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, I don't know if the port has it, but I did some work on pstack a
while
>>>> ago to make it work with libthread_db so it at least handles i386 ok.
 It
>>>> needs to be modified to use something like libunwind though or some
other
>>>> unwinder.  And possibly it should use libelf instead of its own
ELF-parsing
>>>> code.
>>>
>>> I see pstack -1.2_1 failing even on i386:
>>>
>>> pstack: cannot read context for thread 0x1879f
>>> pstack: failed to read more threads
>>
>> Yes, threads don't work for modern binaries (newer than 4.x) without my
changes
>> to make it use libthread_db.  You can find the patch I used for this at
>> http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/pstack_threads.patch
>
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> should be in ports?
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>

I'm on it.

Chris