From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PR/2386 [2/2]: MinGW attach to process without an exec file
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur6h3wlgy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071230170827.GA2494@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (message from Christopher Faylor on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:08:28 -0500)
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:08:28 -0500
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
>
> >> + warning(_("working version of psapi.dll not found. DLL and executable filenames may not be available."));
> >
> >This is not a useful message, IMHO. I, as a user, would not know what
> >to do with it. We need to says specifically that attach without an
> >exec file name will not work, and that users should use `file'
> >etc. commands to work around.
>
> Could you give me some exact wording, please? Is this adequate?
>
> "working version of psapi.dll not found. Use `file' and `dll' commands to specifically load symbols."
>
> ?
IMO, the first sentence is a technicality that doesn't help. How
about the following instead?
Cannot find executable file by PID. Use "file" and "dll" commands
to load symbols.
> Note, that this is actually an enhancement for what has existed in gdb
> for years.
Sure, but we want to improve things, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-31 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-28 1:35 Pedro Alves
2007-12-28 4:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-29 3:37 ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 3:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-12-29 11:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 14:02 ` Lerele
2007-12-29 5:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-12-29 12:59 ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 14:35 ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 18:48 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-29 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 22:46 ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-30 3:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-30 4:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-30 20:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-31 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-12-31 8:12 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-12-31 21:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-30 20:41 ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-30 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-31 4:13 ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 14:33 ` Pedro Alves
2007-12-29 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-30 0:30 ` Pedro Alves
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