Re: [PATCH] Make only user-specified executable filenames sticky

Doug Evans
2015-05-12T16:03:38Z

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> Another way to handle that would be to leave the file loaded
> in inferior 1, and switch to a new inferior to investigate
> the other process.

Sorry, these things don't always occur to me before I hit Send.

Switching to a new inferior is three steps.
(gdb) add-inf
(gdb) infer 2
(gdb) attach PID

IWBN to have something like the following

(gdb) attach -n PID # "n" for "in new inferior"

I kinda would rather do it differently, because it's more than
just "attach" where one would like to do something in a new inferior,
and IWBN to solve them all with one new command (or extension
of existing command). E.g., "new-inferior <command>", as in
"new-inferior attach PID". Or some such.

OTOH, "new-inferior pwd" doesn't make much sense,
and "attach -n PID" is simple (we'd want to enumerate
all such commands and make sure the same option letter is
available for use in all of them).