problem with getppid()

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:18:10AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
>The problem I have is that when Pine gets ppid == 1 it exits, and this
>is checked after a timeout for a select() command, which makes it very
>hard to debug pine under gdb.

If your program looked like this:

    47 int ppid = getppid ();
    48
    49 some c statement;

You could:

  % gdb pine
  (gdb) b 49
  (gdb) continue
  .
  .
  .
  (gdb) set var ppid = whatever
  (gdb) continue

The above is just a suggestion and is not a 100% accurate representation
of what needs to be done, of course.

cgf

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