From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>,
GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Add support for 'info proc files' on FreeBSD core dumps.
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t45qvuo.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ddb67bfe-8e81-bee6-32dd-7b297627e820@FreeBSD.org> (John Baldwin's message of "Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:37:15 -0700")
>>>>> "John" == John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
John> That comment is in the structure 'struct kinfo_ofile' which is for
John> an older format of this structure used in FreeBSD 7.0 kernels. 7.1
John> and later kernels use the 'struct kinfo_file' structure which has a
John> fixed layout (and includes an explicit kf_pad0 padding field). FreeBSD
John> didn't add the NT_PROCSTAT_FILES note to process core dumps until FreeBSD
John> 10.0 (also merged to 9.2), so process cores have only ever included the
John> newer format with a fixed layout.
John> If it is helpful I could add a comment. I think I redid the same
John> archaeology when adding the initial 'info proc' core dump bits for
John> FreeBSD. :)
I think a comment sounds helpful for future developers.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-13 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-08 0:38 [PATCH 0/5] Add a new 'info proc files' command John Baldwin
2018-09-08 0:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add a new 'info proc files' subcommand of 'info proc' John Baldwin
2018-09-08 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 22:31 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-09 5:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 18:43 ` John Baldwin
2018-09-10 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 22:32 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-08 0:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] Use KF_PATH to verify the size of a struct kinfo_file John Baldwin
2018-09-08 22:25 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-08 0:38 ` [PATCH 3/5] Add support for 'info proc files' on FreeBSD core dumps John Baldwin
2018-09-08 22:54 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-10 19:37 ` John Baldwin
2018-09-13 15:08 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-09-13 18:42 ` John Baldwin
2018-09-08 0:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] Support 'info proc files' on live FreeBSD processes John Baldwin
2018-09-08 23:01 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-10 18:30 ` John Baldwin
2018-09-10 19:03 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-12 22:38 ` John Baldwin
2018-09-08 0:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] Document the 'info proc files' command John Baldwin
2018-09-08 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 18:43 ` John Baldwin
2018-09-10 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 18:52 ` John Baldwin
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