fork()

Russell Shaw rjshaw@netspace.net.au
Thu Mar 31 09:31:00 GMT 2005


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.
>>
> 



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