Just-In-Time debugging with GDB

Michael Elizabeth Chastain chastain@cygnus.com
Sun Aug 20 18:37:00 GMT 2000


Hi Mike,

> Is there some technique I can use to determine if my program is
> running under the control of gdb?

In general, tracing a child doesn't disturb the child in a detectable
way.

You could call getppid() and then have a look at that process one way
or another (shell out to 'ps --pid $getppid()').

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
< mailto:chastain@redhat.com >
"love without fear"


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