Re: How to implement gcore on pa-hpux ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:40:09PM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> 
> So I created a new function in infttrace.c. In order to avoid re-writing
> the part of gcore.c that add the command, and handles the arguments of this
> command, I simply hooked the new infttrace directly into the gcore code.
> A bit crude, but it works and it's pretty localized.
> 
> For the FSF tree, I'd like to implement this a little better, and it
> seems to me that the core part of this command, the part that actually
> creates the core file, should be a method of some vector. But which
> vector?
> 
> The way the gcore command is currently written, it seems that it would
> make sense for it to be part of the target vector. No?
> 
> However, in the case of HP/UX, there is a slight complication, because
> the method is only good in the native case...

If you really mean target vector, then this isn't a complication at
all.  The native case should have its own target vector already, in
inf-ttrace.c (note the dash in modern sources).  Ideally remote targets
could gcore; but there's been no interest in implementing that so far,
so it's not worth concerning ourselves with until someone wants to work
on it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery