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Re: multi-threaded debugging using Insight
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at pacbell dot net>
- Cc: insight at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:04:19 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: multi-threaded debugging using Insight
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Bruce Korb wrote:
> I'm still interested to know if it is supposed to be possible.
> My use of popen seems to cause a problem, but there is no FAQ
> and the folks on the gdb list did not even reply. I solved my
> immediate problem using printf debugging, but I would prefer
> to use an interactive debugger. Much easier. Is multi-process
> debugging new territory?
What's the problem again? Yes, Insight/gdb should be able to debug a
multi-threaded application. Can you follow forks and stuff into the forked
child? No, that was never implemented (in GDB) for anything but HP.
Keith