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From: "Hans Horn" <hannes AT 2horns DOT com>
Subject:  Re: gdb attach to process to produce stacktrace
Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:19:29 -0700
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That's all I needed to know.
So in order for the process I'm attaching gdb to to terminate on its own I 
must not use anything that ends up in a windows dll.

In the mingw/msys sources (msys\rt\src\newlib\libc\sys\go32\sleep.c) I found 
a sleep impl (DJ Delorie, 1991) that emulates the sleep functionality using 
repeated time() calls.
no windows dll there - just what the doctor ordered.

thanks for all your help.
H.

"Dave Korn"  wrote in message 
news:027801c6dccb$91bb4980$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM...
> On 20 September 2006 16:06, Hans Horn wrote:
>
>> The real question is as to why the parent process needs to go into a
>> while(1) loop in order to produce the desired trace.
>
>  Because then you're running in the program code, whereas in the sleep
> function you've ended up in a windows dll function and ...
>
>>> Note that if the process is stopped in a Windows DLL the stack trace
>>> will probably not be very informative.
>
>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK
> -- 
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
>
> 




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