Re: ups and fork()

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          "Jamie Sparks" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm running 3.3.7 on redhat 7.2 (on a virtualmachine) and I'm finding
> that upon hitting the fork(), ups is just crashing.  Is that normally what
> happens?  I suspect that what ought to happen is that ups will step over
> that fork() and that process will be spawned, but the current ups will know
> nothing about it unless takes steps to spawn another ups or have the current
> ups follow it.  Is this correct?  If so, what could cause ups to crash on
> a fork()?

Stepping over a fork doesn't generally work. If you set a break point
on the far side and then continue then it should be OK and will follow
the parent process.

Tom

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Tom Hughes ([email protected])
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