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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add new cmd line parameter "--pid" for attach.
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <o5r8oxd515.fsf@tooth.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C3E394C.7A1E6BA8@redhat.com>


msnyder wrote:

> [...]
> + [...]  Now, if the second argument begins with a non-digit, 
> + it will be treated as a corefile.  If it begins with a digit, 
> + GDB will attempt to attach it as a process, and if no such process
> + is found, will then attempt to open it as a corefile.
> [...]

How hard would it be to stop guessing based on isdigit(arg[0]) and
parse the whole string?  Anyway, there is only a problem here if there
are *both* an entirely-numeric core file, and an existing process with
the same id.  If not both of these hold, there is no ambiguity about
what the user means, right?

- FChE


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-11  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-04 19:25 Michael Snyder
2002-01-05  0:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-05 13:12   ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-06  0:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-06 21:26       ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-07  1:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-07 11:07           ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-07 12:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-07 13:39               ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-07 16:14               ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-08  0:53                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-08 15:15                   ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-07 18:55 ` Elena Zannoni
2002-01-08 15:15   ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-08 16:59     ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-10 13:09       ` Elena Zannoni
2002-01-10 16:20         ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-10 16:46           ` Elena Zannoni
2002-01-11  2:19             ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-01-10 17:06           ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-10 17:28             ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-10 17:56             ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2002-01-11 12:26               ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-10 23:53             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-10 13:13     ` Elena Zannoni
2002-01-10 14:49       ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-10 15:02       ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-10 23:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-11 12:24           ` Michael Snyder

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