From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 89209 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2017 17:51:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 89191 invoked by uid 89); 12 Sep 2017 17:51:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:51:38 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51CDB37E67; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:51:37 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 51CDB37E67 Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=sergiodj@redhat.com Received: from localhost (unused-10-15-17-193.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.17.193]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2ADE46683C; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:51:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Sergio Durigan Junior To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] New "set cwd" command References: <20170912042325.14927-1-sergiodj@redhat.com> <83fubsq84f.fsf@gnu.org> <87zi9zeud6.fsf@redhat.com> <83o9qfq2i1.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:51:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83o9qfq2i1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:56:54 +0300") Message-ID: <87poaverfb.fsf@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 On Tuesday, September 12 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Sergio Durigan Junior >> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, palves@redhat.com >> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:48:05 -0400 >> >> The new "set cwd" command also uses chdir (i.e., no shell involved), but >> because it is shared code between GDB and gdbserver, and because >> gdbserver doesn't link against readline, it cannot use tilde_expand. >> Therefore I had to import the "glob" module from gnulib. And also, this >> specific chdir is only invoked after the call to fork/vfork on >> fork_inferior, but before we actually execute the binary. > > Thanks. > > The last bit means that this will only work for targets that use > fork/vfork, i.e. only for Posix targets. Right? Well, the way it's implemented, yes. AFAIK there's nothing preventing this feature to be implemented in non-vfork targets like Windows, except the fact that I don't have access to those targets to test. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/