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From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Added support for debugging emacs daemon
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:59:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tnttvh9c598.fsf@lx-chumsalmon.ad.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imxpotsj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:28:28 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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?

No.  That's why follow-fork-mode is turned back to parent after hitting
init_signals.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(mwd@cert.org)



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-12 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-12 15:44 Added support for debugging emacs daemon Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-02-12 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-12 16:59   ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2019-02-12 17:41     ` Eli Zaretskii

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