From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29268 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2009 02:17:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 29260 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jun 2009 02:17:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-px0-f199.google.com (HELO mail-px0-f199.google.com) (209.85.216.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:17:35 +0000 Received: by pxi37 with SMTP id 37so3739922pxi.12 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:17:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.107.5 with SMTP id f5mr2476794wfc.130.1244513852093; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:17:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <83d4ane6kb.fsf@gnu.org> <833abiexcc.fsf@gnu.org> <83tz3ycchv.fsf@gnu.org> <83k54td2el.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Precord RFA/RFC] Check Linux sys_brk release memory in process record and replay. From: Hui Zhu To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, msnyder@vmware.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00200.txt.bz2 Ping. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 15:06, Hui Zhu wrote: > PING. > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:21:04 +0800 >>> From: Hui Zhu >>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, msnyder@vmware.com >>> >>> > I thought the problem was that replaying the execution log before the >>> > sbrk point would be impossible, because (I thought) there's no way of >>> > regaining back the memory the inferior gave up. =A0Is this the problem >>> > you are talking about? =A0If so, that is not a fatal limitation, and = it >>> > certainly does not justify stopping the program and asking the user to >>> > make some grave decision. =A0The user just needs to be notified, when >>> > she tries that, that she cannot reverse-replay the log past this >>> > point. =A0If the user never tries to replay past that point, she never >>> > needs to know about the problem. >>> >>> I am not sure make inferior cannot continue is good or not. =A0I think >>> let user choice continue or stop is better. >> >> Well, what do others think? >> >