From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Frank Schaefer <frank.schafer@setuza.cz>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Problems debugging forked processes
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020421091101.2767B-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020419121038.A24030@nevyn.them.org>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-21 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-19 0:45 Frank Schaefer
2002-04-19 9:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-20 22:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-04-20 22:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-04-20 22:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-21 22:47 ` Frank Schaefer
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