Sun Studio 12: Debugging a Program With dbx

cont Command

The cont command causes the process to continue execution. It has identical syntax and identical functionality in native mode and Java mode.

Syntax

cont

Continue execution. In an MT process all threads are resumed. Use Control-C to stop executing the program.

cont ... -sig signal

Continue execution with signal signal.

cont ... id

The id specifies which thread or LWP to continue.

cont at line [id]

Continue execution at line line. id is required if the application is multi-threaded.

cont ... -follow parent|child|both

If the dbx follow_fork_mode environment variable is set to ask, and you have chosen stop, use this option to choose which process to follow. both is only applicable in the Sun Studio IDE.