Examining threads with Python extensions
Paul Smith <[email protected]>
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Hi all. I'm trying to write some useful commands for my debugging using the Python API in GDB. What I want to do is write a Python command that will visit each of the threads in my process (or coredump) and examine the stacktrace, etc. for interesting content and display that. I have a lot of threads, and there are certain ones that are always present, plus thread pools, etc. I'd like to be able to generate a summary of the thread numbers (GDB thread IDs), what that thread is for in my process, and what its status is, etc. I can see https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python-API.html and I can walk all stack frames in the currently selected thread, using the gdb.newest() / Frame.older() etc. methods, which I can use to figure out what the current thread is doing. However, I can't seem to find any way to operate on all the threads. In https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Threads-In-Python.html the only thread function available to me, from what I can see, is gdb.selected_thread() which gives me an InferiorThread object for the selected thread. But I can't find any methods that would switch to the "next" thread or whatever. There's InferiorThread.switch() but that makes the current InferiorThread object be the current thread... but how do I get the InferiorThread objects for all the threads so I can use it?! Help? Thanks!