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: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:29:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: problem with getppid() Message-ID: <20050915162909.GA26386@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050915153358.GW5555@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 -- 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/