Re: [PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb

Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-01T17:53:33Z

> Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 07:40:26 -0700
> From: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
>
> On 03/10/2015 04:01 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> > Add support to automatically unzip compressed executable and core files.
> > Files will be uncompressed into temporary directory (/tmp or $TMPDIR)
> > and are deleted when GDB exits. This should be transparent to users,
> > except for disk space requirements. The name of the uncompressed file is
> > mentioned, but all references to the file in GDB messages is to the file
> > which the user specified.
>
> Attached is a revised patch. I discovered a logic error after refactoring
> the code.

OK for the documentation parts.

> + decomp_fd = mkstemp (template);

Do we have mkstemp on all supported platforms?

Thanks.