Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement multiple-filesystem support for remote targets

Gary Benson
2015-04-17T16:01:54Z

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 04/16/2015 01:19 PM, Gary Benson wrote:
> > diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> > index 62cbdcb..a9f05e4 100644
> > --- a/gdb/NEWS
> > +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> > @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
> > (no "set sysroot" or "file" commands are required). See "New remote
> > packets" below.
> >
> > +* GDB and gdbserver now support attaching to processes running in
> > + different mount namespaces from the debugger on GNU/Linux systems.
> > + See "New remote packets" below.
>
> Reading this, I'm left wondering what this really means, because I
> think we could already attach before. What the user needed to do
> before was point the "set sysroot" somewhere, while now, if the
> sysroot is left to "target:", that's no longer necessary. Is that
> right?

Yeah, it's more about accessing files than attaching per se.
I think I need to spend some time rewriting the docs for this
series...

Cheers,
Gary

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