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Subject: fork debugging : back to parent.
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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?

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#include "apue.h"
#include <sys/wait.h>

int
main(void)
{
	char	buf[MAXLINE];	/* from apue.h */
	pid_t	pid;
	int		status;

	printf("%% ");	/* print prompt (printf requires %% to print %) */
	while (fgets(buf, MAXLINE, stdin) != NULL) {
		if (buf[strlen(buf) - 1] == '\n')
			buf[strlen(buf) - 1] = 0; /* replace newline with null */

		if ((pid = fork()) < 0) {
			err_sys("fork error");
		} else if (pid == 0) {		/* child */
			execlp(buf, buf, (char *)0);
			err_ret("couldn't execute: %s", buf);
			exit(127);
		}

		/* parent */
		if ((pid = waitpid(pid, &status, 0)) < 0)
			err_sys("waitpid error");
		printf("%% ");
	}
	exit(0);
}
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