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Re: [PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Eager <eager at eagerm dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:11:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:58:02 +0100, Michael Eager wrote:
> I misspoke/misremembered. It isn't exec_close() which closes the
> file, it is bfd_cache_close_all(). The bfd is not closed, only
> the file.
This is problematic, I have already posted a pending patch for it:
[patch] Do not close BFDs, breaking deleted inferior shlibs
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-02/msg00367.html
> Allowing an opened fd to be passed into BFD makes
> doing the decompression in BFD problematic, since BFD doesn't
> know where the opened file was found, and the decompress libraries
> (at least gzopen()) expects a path, not an opened fd.
One can readlink(/proc/self/fd/%d) although I haven't checked now how exactly
to use it.
Jan