On 2020-07-16 at 00:07 -0400, Dennis Roellke via Exim-dev wrote: > I’d like to understand better how exim processes EHLO messages. Ideally, I > could use gdb to set a breakpoint and step through from wherever I want. > Unfortunately, exim just ignores any breakpoints... it hits them for sure, bc > I see the print stmts. It must have to do with exims threading. I tried > detach-on-fork off, but no luck.
Exim doesn't thread. It does fork some processes. More likely, you have a setuid binary, which is disabling ptracing. -Phil -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
