Hi all, I've searched various FAQ's, perldocs and the archive of the list, but can't find any mention of this, so thought this list might be a good source of advice.
What's the best/recommended way for a script to detect when it's running under the debugger ? I know you shouldn't need to know, but sometimes you do need to - in this example I have a script that uses fork() on Win32 which the debugger doesn't seem to enjoy (given that fork() on Win32 is an emulated hack), so if I'm running in the debugger then it runs what would be the child process synchronously. So far I'm using # detect if we're running in the perl debugger - so far the test is a hack ! sub InDebugger { return exists($ENV{PERLDB_PIDS}); } which works, is cheap, and should be reasonably robust, but I was wondering if there was a better way, something more stable to look for - I could look for various namespaces existing but that seems a bit weak. Cheers -- Tim