[PATCH 3/4] Document RSP support for Linux exec events

Don Breazeal
2014-05-23T22:49:43Z

This patch adds documentation of the new RSP support for exec events.
Regards,
--Don

gdb/
2014-05-22 Don Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>

* NEWS: Mention RSP Stop Reply Packet, new stop reason 'exec'.
Mention gdbserver support for exec events on Linux.

doc/
2014-05-22 Don Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>

* gdb.texinfo (Stop Reply Packets): Document RSP support
for exec events.

---
gdb/NEWS | 6 ++++++
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index b23c8a0..ffe3520 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ maint ada show ignore-descriptive-types
Timestamps can also be turned on with the
"monitor set debug-format timestamps" command from GDB.

+ ** GDBserver on GNU/Linux now supports exec events (follow-exec-mode).
+
* The 'record instruction-history' command now starts counting instructions
at one. This also affects the instruction ranges reported by the
'record function-call-history' command when given the /i modifier.
@@ -103,6 +105,10 @@ qXfer:btrace:read's annex
The qXfer:btrace:read packet supports a new annex 'delta' to read
branch trace incrementally.

+T Stop Reply Packet's reason
+ The T stop reply packet supports a new stop reason, 'exec', signifying
+ that the specified inferior executed a call to execve.
+
* Python Scripting

** Valid Python operations on gdb.Value objects representing
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 6092ff4..55f98c3 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -34589,6 +34589,12 @@ The packet indicates that the loaded libraries have changed.
@value{GDBN} should use @samp{qXfer:libraries:read} to fetch a new
list of loaded libraries. @var{r} is ignored.

+@cindex exec events, remote reply
+@item exec
+The packet indicates that @code{execve} was called, and @var{r} is the
+absolute pathname of the file that was executed, in hex. This is
+only applicable to certain targets.
+
@cindex replay log events, remote reply
@item replaylog
The packet indicates that the target cannot continue replaying
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