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From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
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Subject: Re: longstanding, woeful inadeqacy
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Quoth James Raynard on Thu, 27 June:
: > 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.
: 
: Not if you put a sleep loop in it

And if I don't have source code?  Or a compiler?
Or if the insertion of the sleep loop fixes the compiler bug
which I was trying to find in the first place?
Or if the sleep loop prevents the process from meeting a
synchronization constraint which makes it impossible to
debug the original execution profile?