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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,        Hui Zhu <hui_zhu@mentor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch+7.6] Fix 7.5 regression crashing GDB if gdbserver dies
References: <20130315195359.GA19841@host2.jankratochvil.net>	<514C50EF.6030202@redhat.com>	<20130322191841.GA29259@host2.jankratochvil.net>	<514CB6D4.9070909@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:55:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <514CB6D4.9070909@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 22	Mar 2013 19:53:56 +0000")
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>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> Debugging a live production system with kgdb?  I don't buy
Pedro> that, really.

IIRC, this is the use case that tracepoints were designed for.
So presumably it does happen.

Tom