Re: [rfc v2][0/6] Remote /proc file access

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 01/17/2012 07:36 PM, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 01/16/2012 05:28 PM, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>>> Maybe.  On the other hand, once we've switched to the gdbarch based
>>> implementation, it would automatically work when not yet debugging
>>> a process anyway, so I'm not sure this is really necessary ...
>>
>> Hmm.  I though the target_file_xxx routines would all fail, hitting the default
>> when no target implement the methods that way.  IOW, I was thinking that we'd
>> need to pass the struct target_ops pointer down to the gdbarch callback so
>> the callback could work with the correct target.
> 
> I'd really prefer the gdbarch callback to stand alone; longer term I think
> we ought to get rid of target_info_proc completely and have it just always
> use the gdbarch callback.

Ah.  Yes, agreed.

> 
> However, you're right that the target_fileio_ routines fail.  I've now fixed
> this by making those fall back to the native target if we're not yet connected
> to any actual target (>= process_stratum), just like it is already done for
> target_get_osdata ...

Great, thanks!

-- 
Pedro Alves