Re: RFC: "info proc map" for corefiles

Michael Snyder
2008-12-19T19:46:10Z

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Durigan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FAnior?= <sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:23:53 -0200
>>
>> Hey Tom,
>>
>> IIUC we are creating this new command because "info proc" was initially
>> designed to provide information about a live process, right?
>
> No, "info proc" was designed to provide information recorded about a
> process in the /proc filesystem. And a process that is dead does not
> have any information about it in /proc.

Oh yeah, I guess that's right. "info proc" first appeared
in solaris-gdb, and then the other hosts that shared procfs.c
(like Irix, I think) -- and then eventually appeared in
linux gdb (although /proc in linux doesn't remotely resemble
/proc everywhere else).

Are there any other gdb configs where the command appears?
That is, other than linux and systems that use procfs.c?