From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: laurent.duperval@cgi.ca
To: ac131313@cygnus.com
Cc: lduperval@sprint.ca, insight@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Debugging a fork()ed process
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 05:16:00 -0000
Message-id: <200002241316.IAA11632@qc.bell.ca>
References: <38B4EA1B.3D39018@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00088.html

On 24 Feb, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> lduperval@sprint.ca wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Subject (almost) says it all: how to I debug a forked process? I still
>> trying to find that problem I'm having with a GIMP plugin and it looks
>> like the problem shows up in a forked process. But the forked process
>> stays around for less than 1 second. Is there a good technique to catch
>> this process and debug it? I on Linux is that changes anything.
> 
> HP contributed code to ``follow fork''.
> I believe, however, that it is still only implemented under HPUX.
> 

THanks for the response. I eventually modified some of the code to pause
untill I press a key and that's helped me get around that problem.

L

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