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Debugging Your Application

At present, the tasking system offers two things that might aid you in debugging:

defaultservers.trace(T): If you type this in Glish, the glish values that are actually transferred back and forth over the Glish bus will be traced as log messages from both the Glish and C++ side of the connection. Also, the priority for display of log messages is lowered to DEBUGGING level.
defaultservers.suspend(T): If you type this in Glish, every time a new server (i.e., binary executable) is started up, it will print the pid and suspend the client as described in Section 10.2.1 of the Glish(2.6) manual to allow you to more readily attach a debugger to it. Note that after you attach to the binary, you need to set the ``suspend'' variable to ``0'' in the C++ executable. (With the sun native compiler when you attach you are at the right level, with g++ you need to go ``up'' the stack two levels first).

Of course entering F instead of T in the above will turn off that debugging option. Let us know of any other system debugging support that might be useful to you.

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