Re: [RFA] Find and read symbol files after attach (linux)

Mark Kettenis
2002-01-08T18:12:15Z

Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:59:57 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:40:00PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> [oops, hit send too soon...]
> This change allows GDB to find and read the symbol files (including
> all shared libraries) on Linux when you attach to an anonymous PID.
> It should work for all Linuxen, but for now I've only added it to the
> linux.mh and nm-linux.h files in config/i386. Please feel free to
> add it to your targets.

[without actually looking at it...]

[...for both of us]

(B) Why do we need /proc to do this? We should be able to use the
information in the link map - which we already access in solib-svr4.h -
to get all of this.

Nope. You can't get at the executable itself this way.

Mark