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Quoth Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, 26 June:
: Fork is an easier case since you don't need to swap the debugger's
: executable out - just attach to the new process.

Easier in what sense?  It is essentially impossible to debug anything
that forks, since by the time you can attach to it, it has gone
veering wildly out of control.