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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp>
Subject: Re: kern/1848
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The following reply was made to PR kern/1848; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Pritchard <mpp>
To: grog@lemis.de
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit
Subject: Re: kern/1848
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:15:43 -0800 (PST)

 Greg Lehey wrote:
 > 	It's possible to set breakpoints in shared libraries, but
 > 	executing the code doesn't cause a SIGTRACE.
 > 
 > 	I consider this problem relatively serious because it makes it
 > 	very difficult to catch bugs by waiting for them to issue a
 > 	system call.  In this case, the new version of sendmail is
 > 	calling gethostbyaddr() even though it has been compiled
 > 	without DNS support.
 
 Why not link the binary with -static so you can debug it?
 Have you tried the latest gdb in -current to see what
 it does?
 -- 
 Mike Pritchard
 mpp@FreeBSD.org
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