Using oradebug to dump call stack?

Using “oradebug dump errorstack <dump level>” one can dump the call stack of the process after attaching to a running session. There are 3 values that can be passed as dump level
0 – dump error buffer
1 – level 0 with call stack
2 – level 1 with process state
3 – level 2 with context area

Example:
— Attach to a process
SQL> oradebug setospid 21906;
Oracle pid: 17, Unix process pid: 21906, image: oracle@localhost.localdomain (TNS V1-V3)
SQL> oradebug dump errorstack 3;
Statement processed.
SQL> oradebug tracefile_name;
/u01/oradata/admin/TEST/udump/test_ora_21906.trc

Information in the trace file:

*** 2010-07-22 21:35:56.554
*** SERVICE NAME:(SYS$USERS) 2010-07-22 21:35:56.554
*** SESSION ID:(27.1875) 2010-07-22 21:35:56.554
Received ORADEBUG command ‘dump errorstack 3’ from process Unix process pid: 22990, image:
*** 2010-07-22 21:35:56.554
ksedmp: internal or fatal error
—– Call Stack Trace —–
calling call entry argument values in hex
location type point (? means dubious value)
——————– ——– ——————– —————————-
Cannot find symbol
Cannot find symbol
Cannot find symbol
ksedst()+31 call ksedst1() 000000001 ? 000000001 ?
000000000 ? 000000000 ?
000000000 ? 000000001 ?
ksedmp()+610 call ksedst() 000000001 ? 000000001 ?

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