From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1895 invoked by alias); 19 May 2005 14:32:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30354 invoked from network); 19 May 2005 14:22:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 19 May 2005 14:22:17 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DYlui-0004lW-0b; Thu, 19 May 2005 10:22:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:32:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Wimmer Andreas Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: follow-fork-mode child on SuSE 9.2 (i586 and x86_64) not working Message-ID: <20050519142215.GA18281@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Wimmer Andreas , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <1116510880.15960.11.camel@dibw112.joanneum.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1116510880.15960.11.camel@dibw112.joanneum.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-05/txt/msg00191.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Wimmer Andreas wrote: > Hi, > I am using SuSE 9.2 both on i586 and x86_64 platforms and have some > troubles to get the follow-fork-mode=child feature working > The system is using the kernels provided by the distribution > 2.6.8-11.24 (based on 2.6.8 ?) > I tried with the distribution provided gdb (6.2.1) and also with 6.3 > all with the same effect. > *) A debugged program starts up normally untill it reaches a fork > statement > *) The child process is created the debugger detects the child and > gives the message "Attaching after fork to child process .." > *) The child runs a while (it executed some of the initial code after > the fork) and then blocks > *) After that GDB also blocks without any chance to do something > > NOTE: the parent process is left in "S+" state and the child remains in > "T+" state. Can you reproduce this without using a SuSE kernel? If not, you may want to report this to SuSE. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC