GDB hangs when debugging a python program

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Wed Jan 17 16:03:00 GMT 2007


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:29:18PM +1100, John Pye wrote:
> I'm not sure whether it's reasonably to hope that GDB could support
> debugging of programs that restart themselves in this way. But I thought
> I would mention it just in case it is possible, or if there is a
> workaround in place, etc.

This was a bug in that version of GDB; I'm pretty sure it's fixed in
6.6 (which is not yet in Debian, but it's fairly simple to build
yourself; it will be in unstable soon).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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