Controlling Program Execution

The commands used for running, stepping, and continuing (run, rerun, next, step, and cont) are called process control commands. Used together with event management commands, you can control the runtime behavior of a program as it executes under dbx.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Running a Program

• Attaching dbx to a Running Process

• Detaching dbx From a Process

• Stepping Through a Program

• Using Ctrl+C to Stop a Process

• Event Management