Re: [PATCH 06/16 v3] Extended-remote Linux follow fork

Pedro Alves
2014-11-13T18:59:15Z

On 11/13/2014 06:53 PM, Breazeal, Don wrote:
> My initial approach was to do just that, but I ended up with
> linux-specific code in remote.c (the code that lives in linux-nat.c
> for the native implementation). I guess the direction of recent
> changes would be to put that code into a common file in gdb/nat,
> if possible. Would that be the approach you would recommend?

I'm not seeing what would be linux-specific? On remote_follow_fork
fork, we switch the current remote thread to gdb's current
thread (either parent or child), by
calling 'set_general_thread (inferior_ptid);'
And then if we need to detach parent or child, we detach it with
the D;PID packet.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves