From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4988 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2002 16:01:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4981 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2002 16:01:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2002 16:01:39 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g93Fgc028418 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:42:38 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g93G1cf10020; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:01:38 -0400 Received: from valrhona.uglyboxes.com (IDENT:Na7OCPip7zTA4enqrgxjGw9gm9AGNz/4@vpn50-40.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.40]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g93G1b911274; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:01:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:01:00 -0000 From: Keith Seitz X-X-Sender: keiths@valrhona.uglyboxes.com To: Bruce Korb cc: insight@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: multi-threaded debugging using Insight In-Reply-To: <3D9C6844.21E6778@pacbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-q4/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Bruce Korb wrote: > I'm still interested to know if it is supposed to be possible. > My use of popen seems to cause a problem, but there is no FAQ > and the folks on the gdb list did not even reply. I solved my > immediate problem using printf debugging, but I would prefer > to use an interactive debugger. Much easier. Is multi-process > debugging new territory? What's the problem again? Yes, Insight/gdb should be able to debug a multi-threaded application. Can you follow forks and stuff into the forked child? No, that was never implemented (in GDB) for anything but HP. Keith