Cteating clones of the debugged process

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Sun Dec 31 15:20:00 GMT 2006


On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 12:27:38AM -0800, VicFrag wrote:
> 
> Hi, I've developed the way to create clones of the debugged process, just
> like in Intell igdb(even better). One can save the state of the debugged
> process with all it's memory and variables. And later restore the process
> back in gdb from the point the clone was created. You can create as many
> clones as you wish. That can dramaticly speed up the debugging process,
> espesially if it takes a long time for process to rich intresting point.
> Just reply to this post and I will describe the details. It's a bit ugly,
> but it works!

It's also already included in GDB, for single threaded processes.
Michael Snyder implemented it.  Is what you've done any different from
the checkpoint support added to GDB 6.5?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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