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Date:	Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:26:19 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: numerous bugs i've found in cygwin while developing XEmacs
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:15:40PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>"Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:06:44PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>> >I needed to download the (currently experimental) gdb 20020411-1 version
>> >to be able to attach to processes, so there might be an easy fix for that
>> >particular issue :-)
>>
>> gdb has been able to attach to a process for several years.
>
>Well, I'm not going to re-install the previous version to check this, but I
>recall that I had to upgrade to get something pretty major to work; like, if
>it wasn't attaching to processes it was using core files --- something on
>that scale. But maybe it was just a phase of the moon error (or, gulp, pilot
>error).

This really isn't worth arguing about.  I used the gdb from 2001/04 just a couple
of days ago to attach to a running process.

I believe I added the capability sometime in the 1998 timeframe.

cgf

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