On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:35 PM, Nick Hudson wrote:

> Folks,
>
> In looking at 32076 I wonder if instead of bringing back solib- 
> legacy we could
> go down the route of using procfs to assist attach. This means the  
> symbols
> can be read and the ABI get initialised correctly. The downside is  
> that /proc
> needs to mounted:
>
>
> (gdb) attach 12155
> Attaching to process 12155
> /proc/12155/file: No such file or directory.
>
> which is better than gdb crashing.
>
> Anyone object to this?

Not me.  I've been talking off-and-on with Matt Thomas about gdb, and  
I'm coming around to the idea that procfs should become the blessed  
interface for gdb to use.

>
> Nick

-- thorpej