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From: Don Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>
To: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Document RSP support for Linux exec events
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 22:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400885374-18915-4-git-send-email-donb@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398885482-8449-1-git-send-email-donb@codesourcery.com>

This patch adds documentation of the new RSP support for exec events.
Regards,
--Don

gdb/
2014-05-22  Don Breazeal  <donb@codesourcery.com>

	* NEWS: Mention RSP Stop Reply Packet, new stop reason 'exec'.
	Mention gdbserver support for exec events on Linux.

doc/
2014-05-22  Don Breazeal  <donb@codesourcery.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (Stop Reply Packets): Document RSP support
	for exec events.

---
 gdb/NEWS            |    6 ++++++
 gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index b23c8a0..ffe3520 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ maint ada show ignore-descriptive-types
      Timestamps can also be turned on with the
      "monitor set debug-format timestamps" command from GDB.
 
+  ** GDBserver on GNU/Linux now supports exec events (follow-exec-mode).
+
 * The 'record instruction-history' command now starts counting instructions
   at one.  This also affects the instruction ranges reported by the
   'record function-call-history' command when given the /i modifier.
@@ -103,6 +105,10 @@ qXfer:btrace:read's annex
   The qXfer:btrace:read packet supports a new annex 'delta' to read
   branch trace incrementally.
 
+T Stop Reply Packet's reason
+  The T stop reply packet supports a new stop reason, 'exec', signifying
+  that the specified inferior executed a call to execve.
+
 * Python Scripting
 
   ** Valid Python operations on gdb.Value objects representing
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 6092ff4..55f98c3 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -34589,6 +34589,12 @@ The packet indicates that the loaded libraries have changed.
 @value{GDBN} should use @samp{qXfer:libraries:read} to fetch a new
 list of loaded libraries.  @var{r} is ignored.
 
+@cindex exec events, remote reply
+@item exec
+The packet indicates that @code{execve} was called, and @var{r} is the
+absolute pathname of the file that was executed, in hex.  This is
+only applicable to certain targets.
+
 @cindex replay log events, remote reply
 @item replaylog
 The packet indicates that the target cannot continue replaying 
-- 
1.7.0.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-23 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-30 19:18 [PATCH 0/0][REPOST] Exec events in gdbserver on Linux Don Breazeal
2014-04-30 19:18 ` [PATCH 1/4][REPOST] Remote Linux ptrace exit events Don Breazeal
2014-05-07 19:40   ` Luis Machado
2014-05-08  5:23   ` Yao Qi
2014-05-09 21:03     ` Breazeal, Don
2014-05-21 15:15   ` Tom Tromey
2014-05-22 17:42     ` Breazeal, Don
2014-04-30 19:18 ` [PATCH 2/4][REPOST] Remote Linux ptrace exec events Don Breazeal
2014-05-07 20:01   ` Luis Machado
2014-05-09 21:17     ` Breazeal, Don
2014-05-08  5:44   ` Yao Qi
2014-05-21 15:28   ` Tom Tromey
2014-04-30 19:18 ` [PATCH 4/4 v2][REPOST] Non-stop exec tests Don Breazeal
2014-04-30 19:18 ` [PATCH 3/4][REPOST] Document RSP support for Linux exec events Don Breazeal
2014-05-08  5:34   ` Yao Qi
2014-05-21 15:25 ` [PATCH 0/0][REPOST] Exec events in gdbserver on Linux Tom Tromey
2014-05-23 22:49 ` [PATCH 1/4 v3] Remote Linux ptrace exit events Don Breazeal
2014-05-23 22:49 ` [PATCH 0/4 v3] Exec events in gdbserver on Linux Don Breazeal
2014-05-26  4:55   ` Doug Evans
2014-05-27 18:49     ` Breazeal, Don
2014-05-27 21:41       ` Breazeal, Don
2014-05-28 18:02         ` Breazeal, Don
2014-06-05 22:06   ` Breazeal, Don
2014-06-06 12:29     ` Luis Machado
2014-06-19 15:56     ` Breazeal, Don
2014-05-23 22:49 ` [PATCH 2/4 v3] Remote Linux ptrace exec events Don Breazeal
2014-05-23 22:49 ` Don Breazeal [this message]
2014-05-24  7:20   ` [PATCH 3/4] Document RSP support for Linux " Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-27 21:28     ` Breazeal, Don
2014-05-28 14:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-23 22:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] Non-stop exec tests Don Breazeal
2014-05-26  3:29   ` Doug Evans
2014-05-27 18:31     ` Breazeal, Don

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