Problems debugging forked processes

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > (gdb) show follow-fork-mode
> > Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "parent".
> > (gdb) set follow-fork-mode child
> > (gdb) show follow-fork-mode
> > Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "child".
> 
> This variable doesn't actually affect GNU/Linux.  Yeah, I know, I know. 
> We need a documentation patch to address this; please file a PR
> (http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/, Bugs).

If someone tells me what should be documented, I'll do that.  Now is the 
time, since v5.2 is in pretest.

Is the issue that follow-fork-mode is only supported on a small number of 
systems?  If so, what are those systems, and is it enough to have their 
list in the manual?