Re: [patch] [gdbserver] Fix multi-GB error log files

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

Hi Pedro,

if the only concern is the late release cycle phase it can wait.  When it
waited so many ears I do not find a need to provide a temporary testsuite-only
fix just to fix the 7.3 gdbserver testsuite.

So the question is whether do you want to fix the racey user-facing behavior
of gdbserver or not, independent of the GDB release cycle.


Thanks,
Jan


On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:41:16 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2011 19:18:24, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> 
> > To remove the racy case some kind of backward compatibility with current
> > setups has to be broken.
> 
> No doubt.  As I said, I'm not sure there's a single right answer.
> I think it'd be prudent to consider such a socket change early in
> the release cycle, not late.  If you can fix the testsuite with
> just the --once change (or something else), then I am suggesting
> we consider that (more pressing issue) independently of
> fixing this particular race.
> 
> > If you want to keep the racy behavior for users (for its other benefits) I can
> > propose a patch fixing only the testsuite and not affecting the normal
> > gdbserver executions by users in any way.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.
> 
> -- 
> Pedro Alves