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

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@science.uva.nl>]

   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