pstack竟然是一个shell脚本,核心是调用gdb的thread apply all bt查看进程的所有线程的堆栈,之后用sed正则展示线程堆栈信息。
/proc/pid/exe是一个指向可执行文件的软连接。
#!/bin/sh
if test $# -ne 1; then
echo "Usage: `basename $0 .sh` <process-id>" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
if test ! -r /proc/$1; then
echo "Process $1 not found." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
# GDB doesn‘t allow "thread apply all bt" when the process isn‘t
# threaded; need to peek at the process to determine if that or the
# simpler "bt" should be used.
backtrace="bt"
if test -d /proc/$1/task ; then
# Newer kernel; has a task/ directory.
if test `/bin/ls /proc/$1/task | /usr/bin/wc -l` -gt 1 2>/dev/null ; then
backtrace="thread apply all bt"
fi
elif test -f /proc/$1/maps ; then
# Older kernel; go by it loading libpthread.
if /bin/grep -e libpthread /proc/$1/maps > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
backtrace="thread apply all bt"
fi
fi
GDB=${GDB:-/usr/bin/gdb}
if $GDB -nx --quiet --batch --readnever > /dev/null 2>&1; then
readnever=--readnever
else
readnever=
fi
# Run GDB, strip out unwanted noise.
$GDB --quiet $readnever -nx /proc/$1/exe $1 <<EOF 2>&1 |
set width 0
set height 0
set pagination no
$backtrace
EOF
/bin/sed -n \
-e ‘s/^(gdb) //‘ \
-e ‘/^#/p‘ \
-e ‘/^Thread/p‘