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From: Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Support debuginfo and source file fetching via debuginfo server
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJDtP-QFDD91iH3ste2-tvtg8BjjqdD82NJEQQ9AWYwSc=VtRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnj6dl3k.fsf@tromey.com>

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:55 AM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
>
> >> Debuginfo server is a lightweight web service that indexes debuginfo
> >> and source files by build-id and serves them over HTTP.
>
> Christian> You wrote that the debuginfo server will download symbols over HTTP.
> Christian> Does that mean that this call to dbgserver_find_debuginfo will block
> Christian> as it downloads the file? (will ctrl+c work as it does that?)
>
> The control-c question is a good one -- I'd also like to know the
> answer.  Most things in gdb are interruptible this way.

We are now using the libcurl multi interface to fetch files over HTTP
and it is mostly non-blocking (although blocking can happen during
domain name resolution). However ctrl+c does not interrupt our symbol
downloading within GDB. This may be due to GDB's SIGINT handling,
which just sets a flag for the event loop when it is not safe to
throw an exception. Based on a comment in
gdb/event-top.c:handle_sigint(), symfile reading is one such region.

Also, we have an environment var $DEBUGINFOD_TIMEOUT that lets users
control how much time is spent attempting each download without having
to rely on ctrl+c.

Aaron


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-28 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-20 20:28 Aaron Merey
2019-09-13 21:03 ` Tom Tromey
2019-09-22  3:53 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-09 14:55   ` Tom Tromey
2019-10-28 20:34     ` Aaron Merey [this message]
2019-11-01 19:31       ` Tom Tromey
2019-11-01 21:03         ` Aaron Merey
2019-11-02 14:05           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-04 15:03             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-04 15:46               ` Simon Marchi
2019-11-04 16:26                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-05  1:59                   ` Aaron Merey
2019-11-05  5:27                     ` Simon Marchi
2019-11-05 10:25                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-05 15:19                         ` Simon Marchi
2019-11-05 15:50                           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-05  5:35                     ` Simon Marchi
2019-11-07 23:24                     ` Aaron Merey

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