[Bug 30983] New: Breakpoint in child process (after fork) hangs the child

Subprojects LLDB
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Bug ID 30983
Summary Breakpoint in child process (after fork) hangs the child
Product lldb
Version unspecified
Hardware Macintosh
OS MacOS X
Status NEW
Severity normal
Priority P
Component All Bugs
Assignee lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org
Reporter simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net
CC llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
Classification Unclassified

I'm afraid I'm using LLDB on OSX Sierra, not built from source.

I'm experiencing a problem when setting breakpoints which are hit by a child
process after a fork. A simple example to trigger the problem can be found
below.

If I set a breakpoint on the "printf("In child\n");" statement, the child
process will hit it without reporting to the parent, and then simply hang there
(so that the printout is never seen).

I assume this is because the breakpoints aren't being reported back to LLDB, as
in Bug 17972. If follow-fork mode won't be implemented, then at least perhaps
breakpoints can be cleared for the child?

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/user.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
  pid_t child;

  child = fork();
  if (child < 0)
    {
      printf("Error\n");
    }
  else if (child == 0)
    {
      printf("In child\n"); // Breakpoint here is bad news!
    }
  else
    {
      int status;
      printf("In parent, child %d\n", child);

      wait(&status);
    }

  return 0;
}