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RE: debugging across fork
- To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: RE: debugging across fork
- From: Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd@axonet.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:54:30 +1000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 12:43
> To: Andrew Dalgleish
> Cc: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: Re: debugging across fork
>
> Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd@axonet.com.au> writes:
> > I have found a short repeatable 95 fork bug (see below).
> >
> > How do I debug into the child of a fork?
> >
> > I have Mumit's build of Insight, but I can't seem to get the
> > "follow-fork-mode" to work.
>
> It only works on HPUX 11.x, sorry. I believe this is documented in
> the info docs, which I forgot to package up with the binaries. Please
> visit GDB web site at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/, and look
> at "Debugging with GDB - Running Programs Under GDB" node in the
> docs for details.
>
> btw, I finally ran the cygwin build and noticed that the balloon
> popups don't work when I position the pointer on say a variable.
> If it happens to others as well, it's probably a bug and needs
> to be reported. Works fine on Unix boxes I've tried.
[Andrew Dalgleish]
I had noticed that.
If you hover over a function name the popup does show the function
address.
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