On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Chris Jacobson wrote:
>I use the copyover patch - its an invaluable aid!
>
>However, one problem I have with it is that one cannot use profiling
>enabled and call execl - this results in the replacement process either
>being terminated (no core), or not executing (still haven't determined
>which of the two it is), and no gmon.out file being output.
>
>Is there a way to exec??() and still get the profiler dump?
You're running your MUD under GDB, correct? Try (in gdb before running):
handle SIGTRAP {ignore|nopass|pass|stop|nostop|etc..}
Although be warned that it will interfere with certain debugger commands.
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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