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

Pedro Alves
2015-04-17T15:31:40Z

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?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves