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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37h7od2fk.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOhZP9x4GS=_3ShU3=0tKuqGL8K8H=iijh-gHHwRMQETOwhC-Q@mail.gmail.com>	(Abhijit Halder's message of "Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:00:29 +0530")

>>>>> "Abhijit" == Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com> writes:

Abhijit> There is no way to pass the output of a gdb command to a shell
Abhijit> command. For example, something similar is not permitted: "(gdb)
Abhijit> thread apply all bt | vim -". This kind of feature is quite helpful in
Abhijit> a scenario where a program under debugger has 100s of threads running
Abhijit> and one wants to search a particular pattern in stack-traces. I have
Abhijit> implemented a feature which will allow one to pass the output of any
Abhijit> gdb command to any shell command.

It would be nice to be able to do something like this.

Abhijit> 2011-07-09 Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@symantec.com>
Abhijit>     * top.c (execute_command_to_pipe): New function.
Abhijit>      (execute_command): Update.

I don't think this implementation is the right approach.
It does the wrong thing with some existing valid commands, e.g. "print x|5".

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-11 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-09 13:09 PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-09 19:06 ` PATCH oza Pawandeep
2011-07-11 12:13   ` PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-11 13:42     ` PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-10  7:47 ` PATCH Mike Frysinger
2011-07-11 21:10 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-07-12  0:51   ` PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-12  7:15     ` PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-12  8:34       ` PATCH Mike Frysinger
2011-07-12  9:01         ` PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-12 17:31           ` PATCH Mike Frysinger
2011-07-12 17:49             ` PATCH Matt Rice
2011-07-12 19:25               ` PATCH Mike Frysinger
2011-07-12 19:49       ` PATCH Tom Tromey
2011-07-12 20:43         ` PATCH Mike Frysinger
2011-07-13  8:45           ` PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-15 14:15             ` PATCH Abhijit Halder
2011-07-15 20:49               ` PATCH Tom Tromey
2011-07-20 19:25               ` PATCH Sergio Durigan Junior
2011-07-21 11:08           ` gdb output pipelining to shell (was: Re: PATCH) Pedro Alves

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