From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11222 invoked by alias); 8 May 2010 13:16:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 11211 invoked by uid 22791); 8 May 2010 13:16:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 May 2010 13:16:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0A512BAB74; Sat, 8 May 2010 09:16:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id wWwJ08XP6dNj; Sat, 8 May 2010 09:16:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5E22BAB31; Sat, 8 May 2010 09:16:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A36F9F58F9; Sat, 8 May 2010 06:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 13:16:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Mark Kettenis Cc: teawater@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Set default value of detach_fork to off Message-ID: <20100508131608.GB2768@adacore.com> References: <201005081231.o48CVcGs030274@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201005081231.o48CVcGs030274@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-05/txt/msg00211.txt.bz2 > 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. Agreed. -- Joel