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Re: gdb attach hangs
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:18 -0400
- Subject: Re: gdb attach hangs
- References: <20050529061128.10652.qmail@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 11:11:28PM -0700, Sunil wrote:
>I have compiled gnome-panel in debug mode. I try to attach to it with
>gdb, it just hangs like this:
You can probably blame Microsoft for that. If the program is sitting
in a blocking Windows API call or it is executing in dll initialization
code, then attaching to a process will hang until either of the two
conditions is not met.
cgf
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