Bug 98850
| Summary: | set follow-fork-mode appears broken in gdb | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | maurice dalton <maurice.dalton> |
| Component: | gdb | Assignee: | Elena Zannoni <ezannoni> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-07-26 17:31:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This feature is not currently supported by GNU/Linux. It will require changes to the Linux Kernel and those are only now just being integrated. Watch for this feature in a future GDB (but not 6.0). |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: gdb, says in it's info package that it should support follow forked children. Though when you set this it has no effect on how the debugger behaves. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdb-5.2-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.set follow-fork-mode child 2.continue 3. Actual Results: gdb remains attached to parent process. Expected Results: gdb attaches to child process. Additional info: Is this option broken in this version of gdb. Or not supported. Or are we just using this option incorrectly