From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22151 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2008 03:41:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 22085 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Nov 2008 03:41:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from igw2.br.ibm.com (HELO igw2.br.ibm.com) (32.104.18.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:40:33 +0000 Received: from d24relay01.br.ibm.com (unknown [9.8.31.16]) by igw2.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5E617F50C for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:38:57 -0200 (BRDT) Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (d24av02.br.ibm.com [9.18.232.47]) by d24relay01.br.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id mA73e8tn4366354 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:40:08 -0300 Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id mA73eTre023807 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:40:30 -0200 Received: from [9.8.9.146] ([9.8.9.146]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id mA73eTdk023803; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:40:29 -0200 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- Architecture-independent part From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Durigan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FAnior?= To: tromey@redhat.com Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann , gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: References: <1225773079.24532.52.camel@miki> <1225835702.20764.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:41:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1226029217.32321.98.camel@miki> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00116.txt.bz2 Hi Tom :-), On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:04 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey writes: > > Tom> However, as with the 'thread' (and Ada 'task') qualifier, the best > Tom> approach depends a bit on the underlying OS' capabilities. That is, > Tom> if there is a ptrace-like thing that handles the condition checking in > Tom> the kernel, then it would be nice to expose that, instead of doing the > Tom> check in gdb. I will try to find out if this is a planned froggy > Tom> feature. > > I asked, and apparently this is already in froggy. The filtering is > implemented kernel-side. > > So, I would like it if this part were changed as I suggested > up-thread. We're starting to look at porting gdb to froggy and it > would be nice to have this in place from the beginning. Hmm, ok. So please, disconsider my last e-mail (where I say that I think things are OK for now). I'll implement this as you asked. Regards, -- Sérgio Durigan Júnior Linux on Power Toolchain - Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - LTC IBM Brazil