Re: [PATCH 5/5] Document the 'info proc files' command.

Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10T19:13:15Z

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:43:16 -0700
>
> > Show the file descriptors open by the process. For each open file
> > descriptor, @value{GDBN} shows its number, type (file, directory,
> > character device, socket), offset, and the name of the resource open
> > on the descriptor. The resource name can be a file name (for files,
> > directories, and devices) or a protocol followed by socket address
> > (for network connections).
>
> This looks better to me, thanks.
>
> > This lacks the details about "offset", which you didn't describe, and
> > I couldn't guess.
>
> Some file descriptors (for files for example) include a read/write offset
> (the thing lseek() changes) used as the starting offset of read() and
> write() (but not for syscalls like pread() and pwrite() that take an
> explicit offset). This value is usually referred to as the "offset" of
> the file descriptor (e.g. in man pages for lseek).

I'd say "file pointer offset", then.