gdbwait.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Useful for debugging a process that gets initialized from another process.
# credit to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4382348/is-there-any-way-to-tell-gdb-to-wait-for-a-process-to-start-and-attach-to-it
progstr=$1
progpid=`pgrep -o $progstr`
while [ "$progpid" = "" ]; do
  progpid=`pgrep -o $progstr`
done

gdb -ex 'break <function signature>' -ex 'starti' -p $progpid

# eg. gdbwait <app>