Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gdb attach hangs Message-ID: <20050529164918.GC11936@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050529061128.10652.qmail@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050529061128.10652.qmail@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 11:11:28PM -0700, Sunil wrote: >I have compiled gnome-panel in debug mode. I try to attach to it with >gdb, it just hangs like this: You can probably blame Microsoft for that. If the program is sitting in a blocking Windows API call or it is executing in dll initialization code, then attaching to a process will hang until either of the two conditions is not met. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/