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Subject: Re: Towards multiprocess GDB
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On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 16:50 -0400, Paul Koning wrote:

> Do we need a way to specify a different environment for each program?

Yep - environment, argv, symbols, and address space (mem caching).
Maybe auxv and TLS.  Plus debugger state (running, stepping, 
all the egs and tss stuff).