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Re: examining remote core dumps; MT support for attach;
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:31:23AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:17:03PM -0400, nak26 wrote:
> >
> >>>> How hard would it be to add support for that? I can give it a try, but
> >
> >>would
> >
> >>>> need some guidance...
> >
> >>>
> >>>I have no idea how you would do it. You'd have to transfer essentially
> >>>the same info anyway. Or port gdbserver to have a "core file" target
> >>>but I don't know how well that would work.
> >
> >>
> >>What do you mean by "Or port gdbserver to have a "core file" target
> >>but I don't know how well that would work"?
> >
> >
> >Allow gdbserver to read from a core file instead of a running process.
> >It would be tricky; you'll have to figure out how to do it yourself.
>
> There was a suggestion made that GDB could manipulate files on the
> remote system (mainly to get at /proc/auxv). Such a mechanism would
> also address the core file problem.
This is a reasonable idea, but I think our current remote protocol is
not quite up to the task. Let's keep it on the list along with
multiple channels (for I/O) and file upload/download...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer