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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] release handle on object files after program exits
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408164839.GD7535@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31vs9a8dq.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

Hi Tom,

> Joel> 2009-04-03  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Joel>         * target.c (target_mourn_inferior): Call bfd_cache_close_all.
> 
> I wonder how this will interact with the multi-process support.
> It seems like too big a hammer.

I finally had time to look deeper into this - I came up with the patch
while looking at what we did for the "kill" command, so I didn't have
to think too much about this.

As far as I can tell, things should still be fine, because the file
should automatically be re-opened if GDB tries to read from the bfd
again. Perhaps we could possibly improve the situation, but I propose
we do that if the current approach becomes an actual problem? (in which
case we can look at fixing both cases - kill and exit)

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-03 16:44 Joel Brobecker
2009-04-03 18:41 ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-08 16:48   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2009-04-08 17:14     ` Pedro Alves
2009-04-08 22:51       ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-08 23:12         ` Pedro Alves
2009-04-14 16:51         ` Joel Brobecker

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