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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:15:36 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Cygwin debugging enhancements
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I added two things to cygwin to help with debugging the DLL itself.

The output from CYGWIN_SLEEP now includes the program name.

I sometimes set CYGWIN_SLEEP to zero just to see what is starting
and this helps figure out where crashes occur.

I also had the dll honor CYGWIN_DEBUG so that if you

set CYGWIN_DEBUG=cat

gdb.exe will be started when the cat program is detected.

I've documented this in how-to-debug-cygwin.txt.

FYI,
cgf