From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>, g_gdb@zewt.org, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gdb: detection and/or fork+gethostbyname crash workaround?
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <1010724205257.ZM20762@ocotillo.lan>
References: <200107242000.NAA20721@bosch.cygnus.com> <chastain@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00348.html

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