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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] early abort if child spawning failed
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070922035842.GA10326@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709212231.11507.vapier@gentoo.org>

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:31:11PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> if you use gdbserver to listen on a port and the specified program fails to 
> launch properly, the server process will continue on to the accept() call and 
> sit there forever ... you cant control+c the process as the signals are taken 
> over which means you have to connect with gdb to force the server to re-check 
> itself and then abort ... all in all, a pita for a simple typo.
> 
> the attached patch checks the status field immediately after launch rather 
> than falling down into the main loop and waiting for the remote debugger to 
> connect for the status to get properly checked.
> -mike

Did you port this from an earlier version?  It shouldn't be necessary
any more - Michael fixed this 2007-07-27.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-22  3:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-22  2:31 Mike Frysinger
2007-09-22  3:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-09-22  4:18   ` Mike Frysinger

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