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Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] Document support for 'info proc' on FreeBSD.
On Thursday, January 04, 2018 06:38:37 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
> > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:49:23 -0800
> >
> > Since the 'info proc' support on FreeBSD does not use /proc, reword
> > the documentation for 'info proc' to not assume /proc. This includes
> > renaming the node to 'Process Information' and suggesting that
> > additional process information can be queried via different
> > OS-specific interfaces. This is also cleans up the description of
> > 'info proc' support for core files a bit as /proc is not used for core
> > file support on any current platform.
> >
> > gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> >
> > * gdb.texinfo (pwd): Update cross-reference for Process Information
> > node and remove explicit /proc reference.
> > (Native): Rename subsection from SVR4 Process Information to
> > Process Information.
> > (Process Information): Reword introduction to be less /proc
> > centric. Document support for "info proc" on FreeBSD.
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> Do we need a NEWS entry for this?
I suppose so. I added this to the documentation patch locally:
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5812e8f357..ac2bf57401 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2018-01-04 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
+
+ * NEWS: Document that 'info proc' now works on FreeBSD.
+
2018-01-03 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
* configure.ac: Check for kinfo_getfile in libutil.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 14fcdf8674..7b415ce6e6 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
*** Changes since GDB 8.0
+* 'info proc' now works on running processes on FreeBSD systems and core
+ files created on FreeBSD systems.
+
* GDB now supports dynamically creating arbitrary register groups specified
in XML target descriptions. This allows for finer grain grouping of
registers on systems with a large amount of registers.
--
John Baldwin