From: Mark Evans (evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk)
Date: 12/02/92


From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: Tracing froked processes with gdb
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 09:52:21 GMT

M. Saggaf (alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: 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.
:

Something similar to Dynix's pdbx would be nice.

Programs which call popen can be a major pain
as can daemons