Hi Eyck, If you read the perl 5.9.4 todo list, and specifically this section, you'll see this is something that's been proposed: 
Attach/detach debugger from running program

The old perltodo notes "With gdb, you can attach the debugger to a run
+ning
program if you pass the process ID. It would be good to do this with t
+he
Perl debugger on a running Perl program, although I'm not sure how it 
+would
be done." ssh and screen do this with named pipes in /tmp. Maybe we ca
+n too.

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It's clearly a technique that many would love to have.  As far as I know, though, it hasn't been implemented yet.

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In reply to Re: How to attach a perl debugger to a running perl by liverpole
in thread How to attach a perl debugger to a running perl by Eyck

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