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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:02:49 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dtc@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.au (Douglas Thomas Crosher)
Cc:        grog@lemis.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/1848: breakpoints in shared libraries don't fire
Message-ID:  <199610201432.AAA01800@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199610201349.XAA16448@scrooge.ee.swin.oz.au> from "Douglas Thomas Crosher" at Oct 20, 96 11:49:10 pm

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Douglas Thomas Crosher stands accused of saying:
> 
> > 	It's possible to set breakpoints in shared libraries, but
> > 	executing the code doesn't cause a SIGTRACE.

Setting a breakpoint in a shared library would be Bad, as you don't
have any way of telling who else it is shared with.  I suspect that
the attempt to set the trace is silently failing.

> Douglas Crosher
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