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Re: Refuse following the vfork parent if not letting the child run.
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:04:35PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Monday 08 June 2009 15:40:23, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
> > > Is this actually a fork-following error, and we've stopped execution?
> >
> > I guess you could call it an error. We can't satisfy the users request,
> > so we kind of stopped execution --- in reality, we're refusing to
> > continue execution, as the inferior is stopped already.
>
> How about?
>
> (gdb) n
> error resuming execution: can not resume the parent of a vfork in the
> foreground if not letting the child run until it execs or exits, as
> it would lock the terminal and hang the debug session.
> 0x00007ffff789aee4 in vfork () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb)
>From the user's point of view, we might have failed to resume, or we
might have stopped a running program. It's always helpful to offer a
suggestion. Something like:
(gdb) n
Can not resume the parent process over vfork while holding the child
stopped. Try "set SOMETHING" or "set SOMETHING ELSE".
Also, what about MI?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery