View Process Stack in Linux: Quick Guide

1 year ago
Isabella Edwards
1 minute

There are a few ways to view process stack information in Linux.

  1. Utilize the gdb debugging tool: You can start the gdb debugger in the terminal and attach it to a specific process by running the following command.
  2. Debug the process with the specified PID using gdb.
  3. Next, enter the command “bt” or “backtrace” in the GDB debugging interface to view the stack information of the process.
  4. You can use the pstack command to view the stack information of a specified process in the terminal.
  5. Display the stack trace of the process with the specified ID.
  6. In this case, represents the ID of the process.
  7. To utilize the proc filesystem, you can run the following command in the terminal to view the stack information of a specified process:
  8. display the stack of the process with the specified PID
  9. Here, is the ID of the process.

In the above method, you need to replace with the actual ID of the process for which you want to view the stack information.

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