Stopping Events

Debugging a process involves stopping the execution at specific points to inspect the state of the program. libdebug provides several ways to stop the execution of a program, such as breakpoints, syscall handling and signal catching. This section covers the different stopping events available in libdebug.

Is the process running?

Before we dive into the different stopping events, it is important to understand how to check if the process is running. The running attribute of the Debugger object returns True if the process is running and False otherwise.

Example

from libdebug import debugger

d = debugger("program")

d.run()

if d.running:
    print("The process is running")
else:
    print("The process is not running")

In this example, the script should print The process is not running, since the run() command gives you control over a stopped process, ready to be debugged.

To know more on how to wait for the process to stop or forcibly cause it to stop, please read about control flow commands.