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Re: Debugging a fork()ed process


On 24 Feb, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> lduperval@sprint.ca wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Subject (almost) says it all: how to I debug a forked process? I still
>> trying to find that problem I'm having with a GIMP plugin and it looks
>> like the problem shows up in a forked process. But the forked process
>> stays around for less than 1 second. Is there a good technique to catch
>> this process and debug it? I on Linux is that changes anything.
> 
> HP contributed code to ``follow fork''.
> I believe, however, that it is still only implemented under HPUX.
> 

THanks for the response. I eventually modified some of the code to pause
untill I press a key and that's helped me get around that problem.

L

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