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> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:44:01 -0500
> 
> I was recently in a position where I wanted to run "emacs --daemon"
> under gdb.  After a few fumbles, I hit upon the following. I suggest
> either adding this or something like this to .gdbinit or mentioning it
> in DEBUG:
> 
>   # Follow forks until any possible daemonization is over
>   set follow-fork-mode child
>   tbreak init_signals
>   commands
>     set follow-fork-mode parent
>   end

Wouldn't this get in the way when debugging Emacs which launches
subprocesses?

It'd be OK to put this in etc/DEBUG, of course.  Patches welcome.

Thanks.