Re: Debugging forking programs?

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From: Dave Woerner
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:56

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jason@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill) writes:

>When debugging a program with gdb, if a fork statement is encountered gdb
>stays with the parent process.  Is there any way to control the child?

For your debugger to debug children, you need to be running on a
system whose kernel supports this.  The ones I know of that do this
are MIPS, SGI, and CDC.  I'm sure there are others.  If the kernel
supports it, then the debugger also needs to be "multi-process
aware".  I don't know if gdb is, but dbx is on the above mentioned
platforms.

Dave

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