[PATCH 9/9 v2] Announce new container-awareness features for GNU/Linux systems

Gary Benson
2015-04-30T12:45:20Z

This commit announces the newly added ability to directly access
executable and shared library files when attaching to processes
running in containers on GNU/Linux systems.

gdb/ChangeLog:

* NEWS: Announce support for direct access of executable and
shared library files when attaching to inferiors in containers
on GNU/Linux systems.
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gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
gdb/NEWS | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index b4ce282..ba4fcf3 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@

* GDB now supports the vector ABI on S/390 GNU/Linux targets.

+* On GNU/Linux, GDB and gdbserver are now able to access executable
+ and shared library files without a "set sysroot" command when
+ attaching to processes running in different mount namespaces from
+ the debugger. This makes it possible to attach to processes in
+ containers as simply as "gdb -p PID" or "gdbserver --attach PID".
+ See "New remote packets" below.
+
* Python Scripting

** gdb.Objfile objects have a new attribute "username",
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