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Article #2235Re: Debugging fork-ed processes woes
From: Michael Snyder
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:06
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:06
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Frank Schaefer wrote: > > Hi there, > > Seems 'set follow-fork-mode' doesn't work for gdb-5.0. See the > following. Hi, I'm afraid "follow-fork" was only implemented on HPUX. Sorry for the falsely raised expectations... Perhaps we should do something about hiding those HP-only features from non-HP users. Michael > > # gdb daemon > GNU gdb 5.0 > Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you > are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain > conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for > details. > This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... > (gdb) b 18 > Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048899: file daemon.c, line 23. > (gdb) run > Starting program: /v_dsk/home/p10209/Tests/daemon > > Breakpoint 1, main () at daemon.c:23 > (gdb) n > .. > (gdb) n > 67 Childpid = fork(); > (gdb) show follow-fork-mode > Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "parent". > (gdb) set follow-fork-mode child > (gdb) show follow-fork-mode > Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "child". > (gdb) n > 69 sleep( 10 ); > (gdb) print ChildPid > $1 = 3290 ********************************* > ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????? > > Seems, we were following the parent - weren't we? > > I've configured gdb with: > # ./configure # ( no switches ) > > My compiler is GCC-2.93.3 with the glibc-2-patch applied. > I use binutils-2.11, glibc-2.2.4 and I'm running kernel-2.4.16. > > BTW: The sleep right after the fork() is there, to give me the time, to > attach a second instance of gdb to the child process. > If I do so, both processes crash at random locations due to different > signals ( mostly segfault and sometime illegal instruction ). > If I run the server and client outside of the debugger, all goes fine. > > Am I missing something? > Regards > Frank
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5053,b58874c514f58a62 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5053,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-23 15:19:01 PST x-uunet-gateway: dfw7sosrv11.alter.net from bug-gdb to gnu.gdb.bug; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:18:58 GMT Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0901.news.uu.net!wendy-fate.uu.net!not-for-mail From: msnyder@redhat.com (Michael Snyder) Subject: Re: Debugging fork-ed processes woes Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:06:53 -0700 Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-ID: <3CC5DAFD.3F37DA3E@redhat.com> References: <1019124808.3211.0.camel@ADMIN> NNTP-Posting-Host: reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cronkite.cygnus.com 1019600332 4327 172.16.24.50 (23 Apr 2002 22:18:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@cygnus.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Apr 2002 22:18:52 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en Approved: bug-gdb-request@mail.gnu.org Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Sender: bug-gdb-request@mail.gnu.org Lines: 67