From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8639 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2003 14:01:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8627 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2003 14:01:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO netezza.com) (209.113.240.37) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Oct 2003 14:01:58 -0000 Received: from astral (host20 [192.168.0.20]) by netezza.com (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with SMTP id h99E1vEA020135 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:01:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <008b01c38e6d$e73a4140$1400a8c0@astral> Reply-To: "John S. Yates, Jr." From: "John S. Yates, Jr." To: "gdb" References: <1065665939.20950.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> Subject: Re: Shared libraries and the solib interface Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:01:00 -0000 Organization: Netezza Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 > I am thinking of working on using writing a solib-remote.c interface > file to implement loading of shared libraries. I believe that this is > what Kevin suggested a couple of years ago, but I was too stubborn and > dropped it. The item that I am confused about is how to have the > remote box (which uses the current remote protocol) communicate back > to the host the fact that a shared library has been loaded. Does > anyone have suggestions? I don't have suggestions, but I do have a keen interest in this effort. I have implemented an RSP stub for our embedded environment. A key aspect of our system is broadcasting small snippets of code to an army of worker nodes. That code is processed by a very minimal loader and then executed. I would LOVE to provide my user community an automatic means of debugging such downloaded code. /john -- John S. Yates, Jr. 508 665-6897 (voice) Netezza Inc 508 665-6811 (fax) 200 Crossing Blvd. Framingham, MA 01701