Is there any way to tell gdb to wait for a process to start and attach to it?

Question

I have a process that is called by another process which is called by another process and so on ad nauseum. It\'s a child process in a long tool chain.

This process

Answer 1

On Mac OS X, you can use:

(gdb) attach --waitfor 

but this also is sometimes unable to capture processes that exit very quickly. I'm unsure if this is supported on any other platforms.

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