>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 21:13:54 -0800 (PST)
>From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>

>Does anyone know what's wrong with cpio here? If not, would someone
>let me know how I can step through the child process so I can attempt
>to figure out what's going on?

One trick I've read about, but have never used, is to add a sleep()
call for the child immediately after the fork.  The sleep() gives you
a chance to attach another gdb to the child before it actually does
anything.
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