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On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:39:11AM +0000, Nick Hudson wrote:
> Hi,
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> Here's a patch to make gdb6 attach work in a similar way to the fix I app=
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> to gdb5 for i386 only so far.
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> The difference is that gdb6 likes to have the filename to display and re-=
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> the filename after the process dies so I've added an exe symlink to procf=
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> the same as Linux. I'm avoiding the discussion as to whether this is the =
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> way to get the filename from a pid. ;) FWIW, FreeBSD does this as well.
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> Any comments before I commit?

This makes gdb require mounted procfs, which is a serious regression,
isn't it?

(Besides depending on recent change 'exe' being a symlink with
associated reverse name cache overhead, which I tackle in separate
private e-mail).
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Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>            http://www.NetBSD.cz/
-=3D- We can walk our road together if our goals are all the same;     -=3D-
-=3D- We can run alone and free if we pursue a different aim.          -=3D-

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