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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Richard <rgrdev@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: fork debugging : back to parent.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807210740.GA28579@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5693501.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:21:02PM -0700, Richard (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> 
> Below is the code from "Advanced programming in the Unix environment". if I
> set follow-fork to child, I can step ok to the exclp line. But how do I get
> back to debugging the parent process? Is it possible? I tried setting
> follow-fork back to "parent" and then "c"ontinuing but no joy.  or do I have
> to specifically save process ids and reattach to the parent process?

Try using a recent version of GDB, and set follow-fork-mode to "both".
This was added in GDB 6.5.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-07 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07 20:21 Richard (sent by Nabble.com)
2006-08-07 21:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-08-07 21:47   ` Richard
2006-08-08  0:04     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-08  7:27       ` Richard
2006-08-08  8:49       ` Richard
2006-08-08 13:16         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-10 21:06 ` Richard
2006-08-10 21:39   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-10 22:06     ` Richard
2006-08-10 22:10       ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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