When to Use the Process List Dialog

Note: The Process List dialog, menu choice, and pushbutton are only available on platforms that support process debugging (Windows NT).

If you close the debugger after attaching to a process on Windows NT, the process terminates.

You can use the Process List dialog to attach the debugger to an already running program where an error or failure has occurred. There are two main reasons for attaching the debugger to an already running process:

On Windows NT, you can also use the Debug on Demand feature to invoke the debugger when an application running on your system throws an exception that is not handled.

On OS/2 (local debugging only), you can also use postmortem debugging to debug a dump file containing information on the state of an application when it trapped.



Debug on Demand
Postmortem Debugging on OS/2