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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:37:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: "info proc map" for corefiles
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> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio?= Durigan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FAnior?= <sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,         Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,         "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:23:53 -0200
> 
> Hey Tom,
> 
> IIUC we are creating this new command because "info proc" was initially
> designed to provide information about a live process, right?

No, "info proc" was designed to provide information recorded about a
process in the /proc filesystem.  And a process that is dead does not
have any information about it in /proc.