SPUG: Attach a remote debugger to an unsuspecting perl process

[Joshua ben Jore]

I was telling someone about this last night and thought I'd share the
code I wrote last night after the event. It /almost/ works. I think
I'm using ptys wrong or something like that. When I run it, some
things I expected Expect to send to gdb didn't arrive until I
intervened manually. Buffering or some such. This will probably show
up in a future version of Enbugger.

In one terminal wait for a debugger to show up from the network.

    nc -l -p 8361

In another, attach brain slugs to your perl.

    pdb --pid 11423 --host localhost --port 8361

Josh
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