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Re: follow-fork-mode child on SuSE 9.2 (i586 and x86_64) not working


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Wimmer Andreas wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using SuSE 9.2 both on i586 and x86_64 platforms and have some
> troubles to get the follow-fork-mode=child feature working
> The system is using the kernels provided by the distribution 
> 2.6.8-11.24 (based on 2.6.8 ?)
> I tried with the distribution provided gdb (6.2.1) and also with 6.3
> all with the same effect.
> *) A debugged program starts up normally untill it reaches a fork
> 	statement
> *) The child process is created the debugger detects the child and
> 	gives the message "Attaching after fork to child process .."
> *) The child runs a while (it executed some of the initial code after
> 	the fork) and then blocks
> *) After that GDB also blocks without any chance to do something
> 
> NOTE: the parent process is left in "S+" state and the child remains in
> "T+" state.

Can you reproduce this without using a SuSE kernel?  If not, you may
want to report this to SuSE.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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