From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1110 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2002 05:18:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1099 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2002 05:18:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2002 05:18:21 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1913D1A; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CC24B9C.1060100@cygnus.com> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:18:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Frank Schaefer , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Problems debugging forked processes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00345.txt.bz2 > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > >> > (gdb) show follow-fork-mode >> > Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "parent". >> > (gdb) set follow-fork-mode child >> > (gdb) show follow-fork-mode >> > Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "child". > >> >> This variable doesn't actually affect GNU/Linux. Yeah, I know, I know. >> We need a documentation patch to address this; please file a PR >> (http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/, Bugs). > > > If someone tells me what should be documented, I'll do that. Now is the > time, since v5.2 is in pretest. > > Is the issue that follow-fork-mode is only supported on a small number of > systems? If so, what are those systems, and is it enough to have their > list in the manual? It is only supported on HP/UX (So yes). Andrew