From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32165 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2011 17:13:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 32151 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Mar 2011 17:12:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,HELLO_DEAR,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from g5t0008.atlanta.hp.com (HELO g5t0008.atlanta.hp.com) (15.192.0.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:12:50 +0000 Received: from G1W0401.americas.hpqcorp.net (g1w0401.americas.hpqcorp.net [16.236.31.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by g5t0008.atlanta.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FDB3243DD for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from G6W0644.americas.hpqcorp.net (16.230.34.80) by G1W0401.americas.hpqcorp.net (16.236.31.6) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:12:05 +0000 Received: from GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net ([16.228.24.178]) by G6W0644.americas.hpqcorp.net ([16.230.34.80]) with mapi; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:12:05 +0000 From: "Maucci, Cyrille" To: "gdb@sourceware.org" CC: "Maucci, Cyrille" Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:13:00 -0000 Subject: Backtrace extraction ONLY gdb Message-ID: <0E02F16954AF394BB163AEE50FDF5485690094DFED@GVW1121EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 Hello dear gdb community, Have you guys ever heared things like having gdb installed on a mission cri= tical production system is prohibited for security reasons ? ('Debuggers' being part of the hackers swiss army knife...) So, that is the kind of barrier I need to work around because for support r= easons, I dramatically need a single feature of gdb on such systems which i= s the backtrace extraction feature. Is there any possibility to 'recompile' gdb where only the 'bt' (or 'thread= s apply all bt') feature would be enabled? Such a gdb would not be a debugger but just a backtrace extraction tool... = and therefore would not be characterized as dangerous. Or do you know any tool that would do this? Thank you very much in advance ++Cyrille