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From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't compare the pid returned from wait() against inferior_ptid.
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 10:48:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708094831.GA9636@blade.nx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200708004605.91238-1-jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Hi John,

John Baldwin wrote:
> inf_ptrace::wait() needs to discard termination events reported by
> detached child processes.  Previously it compared the returned pid
> against the pid in inferior_ptid to determine if a termination event
> should be discarded or reported.  inferior_ptid is now null_ptid in
> wait() target methods, so this was always failing and never
> reporting exit events.  Instead, report termination events whose pid
> matches any inferior belonging to the current target.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* inf-ptrace.c (inf_ptrace_target::wait): Don't compare against
> 	inferior_ptid.

Did the bug you've fixed cause any tests to fail?  And, if not, is
this something it's possible to write a test for?

Cheers,
Gary

-- 
Gary Benson - he / him / his
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat



  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-08  0:46 John Baldwin
2020-07-08  9:48 ` Gary Benson [this message]
2020-07-08 16:46   ` John Baldwin
2020-07-08 16:52     ` Simon Marchi
2020-07-09 16:37       ` John Baldwin
2020-07-09 17:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-08 18:40 ` Pedro Alves

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