From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26906 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2007 16:03:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 26894 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2007 16:03:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:03:14 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7DFn-0000fO-AI; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:03:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:03:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: John Pye Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB hangs when debugging a python program Message-ID: <20070117160310.GA2495@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: John Pye , gdb@sourceware.org References: <45ADEC6E.90504@anu.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45ADEC6E.90504@anu.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:29:18PM +1100, John Pye wrote: > I'm not sure whether it's reasonably to hope that GDB could support > debugging of programs that restart themselves in this way. But I thought > I would mention it just in case it is possible, or if there is a > workaround in place, etc. This was a bug in that version of GDB; I'm pretty sure it's fixed in 6.6 (which is not yet in Debian, but it's fairly simple to build yourself; it will be in unstable soon). -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery