Debugging fork-ed processes woes

[Frank Schaefer]

Hi there,

Seems 'set follow-fork-mode' doesn't work for gdb-5.0. See the
following.

# gdb daemon
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(gdb) b 18
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048899: file daemon.c, line 23.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /v_dsk/home/p10209/Tests/daemon

Breakpoint 1, main () at daemon.c:23
(gdb) n
...
(gdb) n
67      Childpid = fork();
(gdb) show follow-fork-mode
Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "parent".
(gdb) set follow-fork-mode child
(gdb) show follow-fork-mode
Debugger response to a program call of fork or vfork is "child".
(gdb) n
69      sleep( 10 );
(gdb) print ChildPid
$1 = 3290       *********************************
                ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????

Seems, we were following the parent - weren't we?

I've configured gdb with:
        # ./configure           # ( no switches )

My compiler is GCC-2.93.3 with the glibc-2-patch applied.
I use binutils-2.11, glibc-2.2.4 and I'm running kernel-2.4.16.

BTW: The sleep right after the fork() is there, to give me the time, to
attach a second instance of gdb to the child process.
If I do so, both processes crash at random locations due to different
signals ( mostly segfault and sometime illegal instruction ).
If I run the server and client outside of the debugger, all goes fine.

Am I missing something?
Regards
Frank