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Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: gdb attach hangs
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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

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