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[PATCH] gcore: expand tilde in filename, like in "dump memory" command.
- From: Azat Khuzhin <a3at dot mail at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Azat Khuzhin <a3at dot mail at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 01:04:35 +0400
- Subject: [PATCH] gcore: expand tilde in filename, like in "dump memory" command.
Before this patch next command will fail:
(gdb) generate-core-file ~/core
Failed to open '~/core' for output.
After this patch:
(gdb) generate-core-file ~/core
Saved corefile ~/core
---
ChangeLog | 4 ++++
gdb/gcore.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8b16b09..7aa8e8e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-07-22 Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@gmail.com>
+
+ * gdb/gcore.c: Use tilde_expand() to handle tilde in filename
+
2013-07-22 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* src-release (VER): Use $(TOOL)/common/create-version.sh
diff --git a/gdb/gcore.c b/gdb/gcore.c
index 620be54..af3fe18 100644
--- a/gdb/gcore.c
+++ b/gdb/gcore.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include "regcache.h"
#include "regset.h"
#include "gdb_bfd.h"
+#include "readline/tilde.h"
/* The largest amount of memory to read from the target at once. We
must throttle it to limit the amount of memory used by GDB during
@@ -51,7 +52,10 @@ static int gcore_memory_sections (bfd *);
bfd *
create_gcore_bfd (const char *filename)
{
- bfd *obfd = gdb_bfd_openw (filename, default_gcore_target ());
+ char *fullname = tilde_expand (filename);
+
+ bfd *obfd = gdb_bfd_openw (fullname, default_gcore_target ());
+ xfree (fullname);
if (!obfd)
error (_("Failed to open '%s' for output."), filename);
--
1.7.10.4