fork debugging : back to parent.

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:21:02PM -0700, Richard (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> 
> Below is the code from "Advanced programming in the Unix environment". if I
> set follow-fork to child, I can step ok to the exclp line. But how do I get
> back to debugging the parent process? Is it possible? I tried setting
> follow-fork back to "parent" and then "c"ontinuing but no joy.  or do I have
> to specifically save process ids and reattach to the parent process?

Try using a recent version of GDB, and set follow-fork-mode to "both".
This was added in GDB 6.5.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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