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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 14:18:00 -0000
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>, vera0010 <vera0010@sina.com>
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Subject: Re: /proc is high-efficient, why not use it?
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> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:21:10PM +0800, vera0010 wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have read gdb-5.3 source. I know it uses primarily on x86/alpha linux platform.
>> 
>> But a debugger can only debug the unique process, not more processes simultaneously.
> 
> 
> That is incorrect.  GDB can debug any number of physical processes at
> once.  However, GDB only supports this when they are threads of the
> same program.

Getting support for multiple independant processes is on the long term 
wish list.

Andrew