On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> That's the way Windows debugging works -- once you attach to a process,
> detaching from it kills the process. No way around it.
I don't think this is true any more. XP enables debuggers (or at least the
VS debugger) to detach from executing programs and allow them to continue,
and there's a service called dbgproxy that lets the VS debugger detach
cleanly on pre-XP platforms:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vctskDetachingProcesses.asp
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vxtskinstallingvisualstudiodebuggerproxyservice.asp
This is for native C++ processes and not .NET framework (CLR) ones --
which can detach on any platform.
I know nothing about debugger internals, but presumably this means gdb
could in theory do the same, on XP at least?
Andrew.
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