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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:51:57 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Thread Debugging in GDB for Cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <01f301c11b17$d1150ce0$5328010a@tataelxsi.co.in>; from kiranc@tataelxsi.co.in on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:26:04AM +0530

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:26:04AM +0530, Kiran C wrote:
>Hi,
>    I am using GDB 5.0 on Cygwin(NT).I have tried debuggibg threads but I am
>not able to do so..
>Is such a debugging option available in GDB 5.0 for Cygwin(NT)?
>I wrote a pgm which forked another process.
>After the forking was performed I typed the follwing gdb command.
>info threads

fork != thread

gdb understands threads and has for some time.  fork() doesn't start
a new thread.  It starts a new process.  That's a completely different
thing.

>I got a list of two threads.(a * indicating my active thread)
>But when I tired to switch to the other thread using the thread gdb command.
>I  was switched to the other task but..I could not debug it..
>I got an error saying cannot find bounds of function..
>I tried the same using pthread_create function in cygwin..But it too did not
>work.

The other thread is a gdb internal thread.  It has nothing to do with fork.

cgf

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