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in reply to Trying to track a sleeping CGI request with gdb

Not knowing gdb, that should surely be 

gdb /usr/bin/perl /path/to/cgi-bin/script.cgi 1234

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Remember, perl is the executable. The script name and arguments for the script are arguments to perl.

( I thought 1234 was for the perl script, not for gdb, so I extrapolated incorrectly. )

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Re^2: Trying to track a sleeping CGI request with gdb
by Chady (Priest) on Oct 10, 2006 at 20:22 UTC

    Yes, but gdb expects after the program name, a core dump file, or a pid.

    So to pass arguments to the executable, you need to run it from within gdb as such:

    $ gdb /usr/bin/perl
...
..
(gdb) run /path/to/cgi-bin/script.cgi

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      "--args" gdb option allows to pass arguments to the executable given a program X and list of parameters a b c: %gdb --args X a b c
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