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Figure 56: Attaching to
an existing process
When you exit from TotalView, TotalView kills all programs and processes that it started.
However, programs and processes that were executing before you brought them under
TotalView’s control continue to execute.
While you must link programs that use fork() and execve() with the
TotalView dbfork library so that TotalView can automatically attach to them
when your program creates them, programs that you attach to need not be
linked with this library.
You cannot attach to processes running on another host if you are using
TotalView Individual.
Detaching from Processes
You can either detach from a group of processes or detach from one process.
Use the Group > Detach command to remove attached processes within a
control group. As TotalView executes this command, it eliminates all of the
state information related to these processes. If TotalView didn’t start a process,
it continues executing in its normal run-time environment.
Process > Detach Command
ddetach Command
Thread > Continuation Signal Command
62 Chapter 4: Setting Up a Debugging Session