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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] Document support for 'info proc' on FreeBSD.
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efn5bmuq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180104014923.11899-6-jhb@FreeBSD.org> (message from John	Baldwin on Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:49:23 -0800)

> From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Wed,  3 Jan 2018 17:49:23 -0800
> 
> Since the 'info proc' support on FreeBSD does not use /proc, reword
> the documentation for 'info proc' to not assume /proc.  This includes
> renaming the node to 'Process Information' and suggesting that
> additional process information can be queried via different
> OS-specific interfaces.  This is also cleans up the description of
> 'info proc' support for core files a bit as /proc is not used for core
> file support on any current platform.
> 
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* gdb.texinfo (pwd): Update cross-reference for Process Information
> 	node and remove explicit /proc reference.
> 	(Native): Rename subsection from SVR4 Process Information to
> 	Process Information.
> 	(Process Information): Reword introduction to be less /proc
> 	centric.  Document support for "info proc" on FreeBSD.

OK, thanks.

Do we need a NEWS entry for this?


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-04 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-04  1:50 [PATCH v2 0/5] Support for 'info proc' on FreeBSD cores and native John Baldwin
2018-01-04  1:50 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] Use gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<> instead of a deleter that invokes free() John Baldwin
2018-01-05  2:58   ` Simon Marchi
2018-01-04  1:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] Support 'info proc' for FreeBSD process core dumps John Baldwin
2018-01-05  2:54   ` Simon Marchi
2018-01-05 19:43     ` John Baldwin
2018-01-09 19:29       ` Simon Marchi
2018-01-04  1:50 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] Don't return stale data from fbsd_pid_to_exec_file for kernel processes John Baldwin
2018-01-05  2:57   ` Simon Marchi
2018-01-05 19:43     ` John Baldwin
2018-01-04  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] Support 'info proc' for native FreeBSD processes John Baldwin
2018-01-05  3:20   ` Simon Marchi
2018-01-05 19:43     ` John Baldwin
2018-01-04  1:59 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] Document support for 'info proc' on FreeBSD John Baldwin
2018-01-04 16:38   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-01-04 21:36     ` John Baldwin
2018-01-05  6:53       ` Eli Zaretskii

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