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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: --pid and --core
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <usl1cv3si.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <477D122A.4060405@codesourcery.com> (message from Pedro Alves on 	Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:49:46 +0000)

> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:49:46 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> 
> If the user specifies,
> 
>       gdb program --pid=3333,
> 
> gdb has no business trying to look for a core file named 3333.
> 
> The patch avoids these confusing messages [1] when the user specifies
> an invalid or non-existing pid:

Thanks, but please make the appropriate changes in the manual as
well.  It currently says:

    `-pid NUMBER'
    `-p NUMBER'
	 Connect to process ID NUMBER, as with the `attach' command.  If
	 there is no such process, GDB will attempt to open a core file
	 named NUMBER.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-05 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03 16:56 Pedro Alves
2008-01-04  5:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-04 12:20   ` Pedro Alves
2008-01-04 15:41     ` Joel Brobecker
2008-01-05 12:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-01-05 13:09   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 17:26     ` Pedro Alves
2008-01-05 17:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 21:58         ` Pedro Alves

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