[Linux] debugging a perl process that's already running - HELP...

[Dominic Caffey]

To all you PERL gurus out:

I'd like to be able to debug a perl process that's already
running that's not owned by me on a UNIX system.  I'm on the
sudo list so attaching to a process that I don't own is not a
problem.  What is a problem is that in all the documentation
that I've read on the perl debugger there is no
discussion/description of how to attach to/debug a
perl process that's already running.  The docs that I've read
include
"http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perldebug.html" and
an excerpt from the docs:

"In Perl, the debugger is not a separate program as it usually
is in the typical compiled environment. Instead, the -d flag
tells the compiler to insert source information into the parse
trees it's about to hand off to the interpreter. .... Then when
the interpreter starts up, it preloads a Perl library file
containing the debugger itself. "

Makes me inclined to believe that what I'd like to do is not
currently possible.

If what I'd like to do is possible and you've done it could you
post the details or send me an email.

Thanks,

Dom
dcaffey@pb.seflin.org

P.S.:  I'm using perl, version 5.005_03 on Mandrake 7.0.



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| Dominic Caffey
| Email:  dcaffey@pb.seflin.org
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