Thats a 'feature' of gdb - it tries to use the 2nd argument as a
	core file, then if that fails tries it as a process id.
	(shudder).

	(I keep wondering who will be the first to have a file in the
	current directory of the same name as the pid they are trying to
	debug :)

		David

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On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, Gerald C. Simmons wrote:

> Thanks for the info! I am running NetBSD-1.0 (with all the patches) and gdb a
> currently running process seems to work fine. I did give me a strange message
> when it started:
> 
> /home/simmons/beam/pop3d/12369: No such file or directory.
> 
> Seems it was looking for a core file?
> 
> Gerry Simmons
> simmons@darykon.wa.com
>