harry@damien:~/jatx$ gdb -p 10620 GNU gdb 6.3-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-linux". Attaching to process 10620 Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". warning: could not load vsyscall page because no executable was specified warning: try using the "file" command first Reading symbols from /bin/bash...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libncurses.so.5 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libnss_compat.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libnss_compat.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libnsl.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libnss_nis.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libnss_nis.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libnss_files.so.2... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libnss_files.so.2 0x410db45e in read () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) i reg eax 0xfffffe00 -512 ecx 0xbfffeeff -1073746177 edx 0x1 1 ebx 0x0 0 esp 0xbfffeed8 0xbfffeed8 ebp 0xbfffef08 0xbfffef08 esi 0xbfffeeff -1073746177 edi 0x1 1 eip 0x410db45e 0x410db45e eflags 0x200246 2097734 cs 0x73 115 ss 0x7b 123 ds 0x7b 123 es 0x7b 123 fs 0x0 0 gs 0x33 51