From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alex Bernardin <alexjb@dnai.com>
To: "Randy Wolf" <rwolf@worldisp1.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@cygnus.com
Subject: re: restart capability in gdb?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0000
Message-ID: <14012.3458.730530.773724@triton.dnai.com>
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X-SW-Source: 1999-q1/msg00038.html
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GDB maintainers,   Please respond to this gentleman, and let him know how he
can help.

..AlexJB
Alex Bernardin
GNU Volunteer Coordinator
alexjb@gnu.org


Randy Wolf writes:
 > I'm interested in being able to capture a running process image, storing it,
 > and restarting it.
 > Your gdb debugger doesn't seem to support this.  If that is an incorrect
 > assessment, then I
 >  would appreciate your telling me how this works.  The dbx debugger on SUN's
 > did have
 >  a 'restart' command if I recall correctly.
 > 
 > If I am correct in thinking that gdb doesn't allow process saving/restart,
 > then I might possibly
 >  be interested in working on adding that capability to gdb.  I would need to
 > know more details
 >  about how that would work. An estimate from someone familiar with gdb about
 > how hard it
 >  would be to do would be something I would want to know.
 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > Dr. Randy P. Wolf
 > 1006 Woods Cove Rd
 > Scottsboro, AL 35768
 > 
 >