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Subject: Re: [RFC] multi-process gdb (forks, checkpoints)
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Jim Blandy wrote:
> What happens if we fork, and then one of the forks unloads or loads a
> shared library?
> 
> We're really crippled by our symtab data structures.

Hmmm... unload would be the bigger problem, I suppose.

I'd look at it this way -- this is really a subset of "debugging
separate processes".  The subset is, processes that share the same
symbol set.  What you suggest is crowding that boundary.   ;-)

We know that the set of programs that can be debugged this way
is prescribed.  Can't do multi-threaded programs, for instance.