Re: patch to gdbserver for names instead of pid numbers

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-10T19:35:25Z

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:14:26PM -0800, glenn_engel@agilent.com wrote:
> Attached is a patch to gdbserver to allow the remote server to attach to a process by executable name rather than by pid number. It chooses the 'first' process name that matches, assuming it to be the group leader of a multi-threaded application. I found this to be extremely helpful in repeated use of gdbserver.
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> 2002-12-09 Glenn Engel glenne@engel.org <mailto:glenne@engel.org>
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> * server.c (main): Allow process name in addition to PID number

No... you can do this using 'gdbserver :1234 --attach `pidof -s foo`.
Killall5/pidof is a 9K binary; I don't want to add this feature to the
server directly when it's already available so lightweightly.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer