Do we know whether `set follow-fork-mode child` in gdb would work ? If not, can we fix it ? It would be a pretty good experience for most developers that only care about the child.
Paul. On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 06:05 PM, Aaron Klotz wrote: > I know that most people aren't debugging e10s on Windows, but if you > are, here's a protip (provided that you are using WinDbg): > > If you include the "-o" option in the debugger args, WinDbg will > automatically attach itself to all child processes that are started by > the chrome process. No special environment variables or process startup > sleeps required. > > -Aaron > > On 3/24/2016 10:51 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > On 3/24/16 12:43 PM, Andrew Halberstadt wrote: > >> I'm not aware of work around this. If --debugger is completely busted > >> with e10s, I could potentially make --debugger imply --disable-e10s > >> until it gets fixed. Is there a bug on file? > > > > I don't know of one. > > > > It's not that it's busted per se, it's that it attaches the debugger > > to the parent process. Which is not very helpful, in most cases. > > What would be ideal (at least on unixy systems) is if we managed to > > detect the child process starting and popped up an instance of $TERM > > or so, with a debugger running in it and attached to the child. > > > >> I also forgot to mention that command defaults are likely coming soon, > >> so once bug 1255450 lands you'll be able to make a .machrc with: > >> > >> [defaults] > >> mochitest = --disable-e10s > > > > Ah, nice. Still, I agree it would be good to be testing e10s if we > > can make the debugging experience there better. > > > > -Boris > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
