The problem seems to come when I include the odbc libraries included 
with redhat 7.3.  I've included a test .c file that will cause the 
problem when run with:
cc popen_test.c -o a.out -g -lodbc


Bruce Korb wrote:

>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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>>On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:30:04PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
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>>>Chris Hamilton wrote:
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>>>>Bruce,
>>>>I came across your September 24th posting about gdb throwing off a
>>>>"Cannot find thread 2049" when it hits a popen
>>>>(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/insight/2002-q3/msg00185.html).
>>>>I'm currently experiencing the same problem in my application, and I was
>>>>wondering if you had any advice on how to solve it.
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>>Popen should not present this problem.  I don't know why it does, so we
>>need more information.
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>It seems to occur when using popen, but not when I do all
>the fork/exec stuff myself.  I'll see if a trivial popen
>example duplicates the problem, but I would guess that many
>would have complained by now if it were that easy.
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>>Meanwhile multi-process debugging is forthcoming.  The Linux kernel
>>patches are already in and I have more GDB patches queued.
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>Excellent!!  Thank you very much!
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