Re: fork()

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@netspace.net.au>]

Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>> Siddharth Choudhary Kode wrote:
>>
>>> Check the info doc, sec. 4.10.  This is only supported on GNU/Linux 
>>> 2.5.60+ and HP-UX 11.x+.  If your platform doesn't support it, the 
>>> best option is to insert a sleep() statement at the beginning of your 
>>> child code and then have a new gdb session attach to the child 
>>> process before the sleep expires.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm using 2.6.10 on debian sid.
>>
>>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Russell Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was debugging a program with gdb-6.3 and did: set follow-fork-mode 
>>>> child but fork() still returns the PID meaning that it is still following 
>>>> the parent.
> 
> Can you show the context in which you are getting this ?

I was debugging ttink (a utility for monitoring epson printers). It doesn't matter
much now because i found a different utilty.

I compiled it from source with gcc-3.4.4, using CFLAGS= -g -O0.

cmd.c:


/* no server, create the shared memory   */
    /* and the sub process for port /dev/... */
    if ( pid == -1 && ! connectedOnServer )
    {
       *shmem->function    = '\0';
       shmem->printerState = 4;
       shmem->mode         = mode;
       shmem->command      = command;
       shmem->pass         = pass;
       shmem->choice       = choice;
       *shmem->buf         = '\0';
       shmem->ready        = 0;

       switch((pid=fork()))               <<<-------------------- here
       {
          case 0:
             doCommands(NULL);
             break;
          case -1:
          break;
          default:
             /* allow to react on child dead */
             signal(SIGCHLD, sigChild);
       }
#endif
    }