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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:19:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support gzip compressed exec and core files in gdb
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com> wrote:
>> Would it make sense to support .tar.gz/.tgz files containing both a
>> binary and its .dwp?
>
>
> Perhaps, but I don't want to extend this (conceptually) simple extension
> to also handling tar files.  Maybe as a follow-on.

Is there a fuse-based wrapper for tarballs?
A little googling suggests there is but I didn't dig for details.

How useful would it be to make that work from gdb more easily?

E.g., "file tarfuse:myexec"

and then provide a way to register a handler for "tarfuse".

Or some such.
Just thinking out loud ...