B20: hang on pipe to grep

raf raf@comdyn.com.au
Sun Nov 22 18:36:00 GMT 1998


Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

>Is there a way to get gdb to follow the child after a fork()?  I could
>probably debug things myself if there were... I always seem to remain in
>the parent process and the child tears away at full speed...

gdb can attach itself to a running process (gdb <progname> <pid>).
so start a new gdb once you know the child's pid.
maybe even have your code launch a gdb that attaches
to the child as soon as it has been created.

raf

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