>>>>> On Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:29:59 GMT, jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey) said:

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>>>>> On Sun, 29 Nov 1992 22:36:24 GMT, 
>>>>> alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) said:

Muhammad> Does anybody know how to make gdb trace a forked process
Muhammad> instead of the parent process? i.e. to switch between
Muhammad> different processes of the progarm being debugged? Thanks.

RS> My processes get seriously froked all the time.  Sorry, even gdb
RS> doesn't help...

Gee, tough crowd. Can't a guy make an honest spelling mistake and get
away with it? :-)

Well, there is actually a way to attach a background process in gdb.
use 'attach <pid>' to achieve that. Thanks to Mike Irons for the hint.
I haven't actually tested it yet, so I can't say whether it works or
not.

Have fun!

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/M. Saggaf
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu