Re: gdb: detection and/or fork+gethostbyname crash workaround?

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>]

On Jul 24,  1:00pm, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:

> > I'm trying to work around this bug in another program, now, where making
> > a separate binary for resolving is undesirable; I want to force it to
> > not fork resolves when being debugged, and do so automatically.
> 
> How about something like this:
> 
>   /* Global variable.  Do resolve by forking a child process.
>      This is usually one, but you can turn it off to make debugging
>      easier. */
>   int g_resolve_fork = 1;
> 
> Then in your .gdbinit file, say:
> 
>   print g_resolve_fork = 0

I like Michael's suggestion (above) better than any of my suggested
workarounds.

Kevin