On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:10:36PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >I'm trying to debug a problem with xemacs that involves the child >process forked when you execute M-x shell. > >None of the mechanisms in the gdb documentation for choosing to step >into the child process (instead of the parent) after a fork() seem to >work for me. That is, in particular, setting follow-for-mode to child >still leaves me in the parent after stepping over a fork(). > >Setting detach-on-fork to 'off' also seems to have no effect. > >Have I misunderstood something, or does this aspect of gdb just not >work under cygwin (x86_64, 1.7.29-2)?
Debugging subprocesses doesn't work for Windows gdb. Sorry. If you have control over the code you could have it print a pid, wait, and then attach to it with gdb. That works. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
