+2007-12-26 Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * gdb.base/multi-forks.exp: Doc fix.
+
2007-12-26 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* gdb.ada/Makefile.in (EXECUTABLES): Update list.
# parent and child of multiple Unix fork() system calls.
#
-# Inferior program calls fork 4 times. Since each fork
-# calls fork 4 times, there will be 16 forks. Each fork
-# saves the return values of its own 4 fork calls.
+# The inferior program builds a tree of processes by executing a loop
+# four times, calling fork at each iteration. Thus, at each
+# iteration, the total number of processes doubles; after four
+# iterations, we have 16 processes. Each process saves the results
+# from its 'fork' calls, so we can tell which leaf a given process is
+# by looking at which forks returned zero and which returned a pid: a
+# zero means to take the child's branch; a pid means to take the
+# parent's branch.
# First set gdb to follow the child.
# The result should be that each of the 4 forks returns zero.