Re: Odd gdb problem

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Philipp, after this change, I can no longer debug Emacs with gdb on
> Debian/bookworm.  (It works fine with older gdb versions.)

I've confirmed that simply disabling it on the current trunk makes the
problem disappear, so it's definitely the spawn code:

diff --git a/src/callproc.c b/src/callproc.c
index c949fff4db..ec44e982f3 100644
--- a/src/callproc.c
+++ b/src/callproc.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Copyright (C) 1985-1988, 1993-1995, 1999-2021 Free Software 
Foundation,
   && defined HAVE_DECL_POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID                   \
   && HAVE_DECL_POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID == 1
 # include <spawn.h>
-# define USABLE_POSIX_SPAWN 1
+# define USABLE_POSIX_SPAWN 0
 #else
 # define USABLE_POSIX_SPAWN 0
 #endif


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