Hmmm...how about that? Yeah, it doesn't work with the devel trunk either - I'd 
missed that point.

No idea why, I'm afraid - never tried it before. Are you sure it "crashes"? I'm 
still getting a child status of "0", but no message output. My guess is that 
the I/O is being lost for some reason.

On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Geoffrey Irving <irv...@naml.us> wrote:

> Actually, I don't see it printing "We're an MPI program!" under gdb,
> which means it isn't working.
> 
> Geoffrey
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>> Hmmm...works with 1.6.4 for me on Mac 10.8.2:
>> 
>> Ralphs-iMac:v1.6 rhc$ ./fork-bug
>> We're an MPI program!
>> child status = 0
>> Ralphs-iMac:v1.6 rhc$ gdb ./fork-bug
>> GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1820) (Sat Jun 16 02:40:11 UTC 
>> 2012)
>> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for 
>> shared libraries ... done
>> 
>> (gdb) r
>> Starting program: /Volumes/RHCHD/rhc/openmpi/v1.6/fork-bug
>> Reading symbols for shared libraries ++............................. done
>> child status = 0
>> 
>> Program exited normally.
>> (gdb)
>> 
>> Afraid I have no idea why you might be hitting the problem, though...
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Geoffrey Irving <irv...@naml.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> The singleton fork/exec itself is fine, since normal MPI programs work
>>> under gdb (e.g., fork-bug.c without the fork).  gdb is has
>>> follow-fork-mode set to parent, so it's odd that gdb is looking at the
>>> child process's trickery at all.
>>> 
>>> I've confirmed that it's still broken under 1.6.4, unfortunately.
>>> 
>>> Geoffrey
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>>>> Singletons fork/exec a daemon to support them - my guess is that gdb may 
>>>> not like it on your machine?
>>>> 
>>>> FWIW - it runs fine for me using the developer's trunk. You might try with 
>>>> 1.6.4 in case it's a bug in 1.6.0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Geoffrey Irving <irv...@naml.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The attached program illustrates the problem.  It forks, and the child
>>>>> calls MPI_Init.  This works fine unless I'm inside gdb.  Inside gdb,
>>>>> MPI_Init silently crashes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm using OpenMPI 1.6.0 on Mac 10.8.2.  I'm running the program
>>>>> directly, not through mpirun.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any ideas what might be wrong?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Geoffrey
>>>>> 
>>>>> cone:scratch% /usr/local/bin/mpicc -o fork-bug fork-bug.c
>>>>> cone:scratch% ./fork-bug
>>>>> We're an MPI program!
>>>>> child status = 0
>>>>> cone:scratch% gdb ./fork-bug
>>>>> gdb ./fork-bug
>>>>> GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1824) (Thu Nov 15 10:42:43 UTC 
>>>>> 2012)
>>>>> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>>> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you 
>>>>> are
>>>>> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
>>>>> conditions.
>>>>> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>>>>> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for 
>>>>> details.
>>>>> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for
>>>>> shared libraries ... done
>>>>> 
>>>>> (gdb) run
>>>>> Reading symbols for shared libraries ++............................. done
>>>>> child status = 5
>>>>> 
>>>>> Program exited normally.
>>>>> (gdb) cone:scratch%
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