Re: Attaching to a running CMUCL process

Edi Weitz <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:17:10 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.cmucl.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:50:32 -0500, "Denis Papathanasiou" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Other than using detachtty/attachtty, is there any way to attach to
> a running CMUCL process and have access to its top level?
>
> I tried using gdb with the process id, but the stack frames and
> symbol tables I got back were meaningless (they all said "??").
>
> I thought I could start a new CMUCL process, and attach to the other
> process using its pid, but I couldn't find anything in manual which
> indicates how to do that.
>
> Is it even possible?
>
> Unfortunately, I can't run the process I want to monitor under
> detachtty.

On x86 you could try this:

  http://www.cons.org/cmucl/doc/lispserver.html