// based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4636456/stack-trace-for-c-using-gcc/4732119#4732119 #include #include #include #include #include extern int done; extern int emcOperatorError(int id, const char *fmt, ...); extern int emcOperatorText(int id, const char *fmt, ...); void backtrace(int signo) { char pid_buf[30]; char name_buf[512]; char filename[512]; signal(signo, SIG_IGN); // prevent multiple invocations on same signal sprintf(pid_buf, "%d", getpid()); sprintf(filename,"/tmp/backtrace.%s", pid_buf); name_buf[readlink("/proc/self/exe", name_buf, 511)]=0; int child_pid = fork(); if (!child_pid) { fclose(stderr); stderr = freopen(filename, "a", stderr); dup2(2,1); // child: redirect output to stderr fprintf(stdout,"stack trace for %s pid=%s signal=%d\n",name_buf,pid_buf, signo); execlp("gdb", "gdb", "--batch", "-n", "-ex", "thread", "-ex", "bt", name_buf, pid_buf, NULL); emcOperatorError(0, "backtrace for %s (pid %s signal %d): gdb failed to start", name_buf, pid_buf, signo); abort(); /* If gdb failed to start */ } else { int status; waitpid(child_pid, &status,0); if (signo == SIGUSR1) { // continue running after backtrace signal(SIGUSR1, backtrace); emcOperatorText(0, "backtrace for %s stored in %s, continuing", name_buf, filename); fprintf(stderr, "%s: backtrace stored in %s, continuing\n", name_buf, filename); } else { // this takes emcmodule.cc:EMC_COMMAND_TIMEOUT seconds to display: if (status == 0) // backtrace succeeded emcOperatorError(0, "%s (pid %d) died on signal %d, backtrace stored in %s", name_buf, getpid(), signo, filename); fprintf(stderr, "%s exiting\n", name_buf); done = 1; // signal task to exit main loop } } }