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Re: [PATCH 9/9 v2] Announce new container-awareness features for GNU/Linux systems
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, palves at redhat dot com, dje at google dot com, iago at endocode dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:12:22 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9 v2] Announce new container-awareness features for GNU/Linux systems
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
> Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,
> Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:05:42 +0100
>
> This commit announces the newly added ability to directly access
> executable and shared library files when attaching to processes
> running in containers on GNU/Linux systems.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> * NEWS: Announce support for direct access of executable and
> shared library files when attaching to inferiors in containers
> on GNU/Linux systems.
> ---
> gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
> gdb/NEWS | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index b4ce282..ba4fcf3 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@
>
> * GDB now supports the vector ABI on S/390 GNU/Linux targets.
>
> +* On GNU/Linux, GDB and gdbserver are now able to access executable
> + and shared library files without a "set sysroot" command when
> + attaching to processes running in different mount namespaces from
> + the debugger. This makes it possible to attach to processes in
> + containers as simply as "gdb -p PID" or "gdbserver --attach PID".
> + See "New remote packets" below.
> +
OK.