From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@ACT-Europe.FR>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] gdb_realpath causes problems with GVD
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020319191431.21024B-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020319171236.D6465@act-europe.fr>
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> As you see, GDB has translated toto.c into toto.C. This translation
> causes GDB to think that the inferior stopped in a file named toto.C
> (which is not known to GDB, since the compiler used only toto.c).
Are you saying that gdb_realpath shouldn't follow symlinks?
> The translation is performed by gdb_realpath. I searched the gdb-patches
> archives, and found the reason for this translation in a message from
> Tom Tromey. I think I found a way to keep the fix to his problem and
> then at the same time fix our issue: instead of canonicalizing the
> entire filename, I suggest that we only expand the directory prefix
> (ie the part returned by the "dirname" unix command).
Is this a complete solution? That is, will it work in a situation
slightly different from your, e.g., when one of the directories in the
full file name is also a symlink?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-19 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-19 8:12 Joel Brobecker
2002-03-19 9:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-03-19 9:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-19 9:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-19 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-19 12:14 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-19 22:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-20 1:15 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-20 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-20 4:05 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-20 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-20 8:10 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-20 9:41 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-19 10:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-19 14:28 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-20 14:16 ` Tom Tromey
2002-03-21 0:11 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-21 3:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-23 21:35 ` Tom Tromey
2002-03-25 1:22 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-25 9:23 ` Tom Tromey
2002-03-25 10:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-03-27 19:36 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-27 19:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-23 21:13 ` Tom Tromey
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