Subject: Re: B20: hang on pipe to grep
From: [email-masked] (raf)

23 Nov 1998 06:59:05 -0800
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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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