Re: RFC: "info proc map" for corefiles

Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-19T19:37:12Z

> 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.