Debug of Test 15 (cgf input needed)

Pierre A. Humblet Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Sat Apr 7 18:56:00 GMT 2001


At 08:14 PM 4/7/2001 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:

>Some (most) select operations in cygwin actually need to resort to
>polling so they do consume CPU.  The easiest way to find out what is
>happening is to attach a gdb to the running process.

Chris, can you elaborate? I have never done that until now.
While the Xserver process is running, I launch gdb -nw, load the executable
(file) and attach to the winpid. gdb tells me "attaching ... " and gets
stuck. From another window I send a signal to the Xserver and gdb
then gives me the prompt. Now what? The only info I have been able to
get is the registers and the dlls ...
Thanks

Pierre



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