Re: fork()

[Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at codito dot com>]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Siddharth Choudhary Kode wrote:
>
> > Check the info doc, sec. 4.10.  This is only supported on GNU/Linux 
> > 2.5.60+ and HP-UX 11.x+.  If your platform doesn't support it, the 
> > best option is to insert a sleep() statement at the beginning of your 
> > child code and then have a new gdb session attach to the child process 
> > before the sleep expires.
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm using 2.6.10 on debian sid.
>
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Russell Shaw wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was debugging a program with gdb-6.3 and did: set follow-fork-mode 
> > > child
> > >
> > > but fork() still returns the PID meaning that it is still following 
> > > the parent.

Can you show the context in which you are getting this ?

> > >


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