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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: teawater@gmail.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Set default value of detach_fork to off
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 12:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005081231.o48CVcGs030274@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v2qdaef60381005080519v60d9d601k9341aaf172fde8e1@mail.gmail.com>	(message from Hui Zhu on Sat, 8 May 2010 20:19:29 +0800)

> From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 20:19:29 +0800
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Looks multi-inferior is more better than before.  I suggest set
> default value of detach_fork to off.
> Then when the user debug the multi-process program, they can debug the
> inferior like multi-thread inferior.
> 
> What do you think about it?

I think we should keep the current default.  While the ability to
debug both sides of a fork is a nice feature to have, I think most
people are only interested in debugging the process they started the
debugger on.  It is not unusual for programs to use system(3) to
execute system binaries, and I doubt people are interested in
debugging those.  Typically those binaries will be stripped anyway.
Setting detach_fork to off will only interfere.
> 
> 2010-05-08  Hui Zhu  <teawater@gmail.com>
> 
> 	* infrun.c (detach_fork): Change default value to 0.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-08 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-08 12:19 Hui Zhu
2010-05-08 12:31 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2010-05-08 13:16   ` Joel Brobecker

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