From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Zheng Jian-Ming <zjm@cis.nctu.edu.tw>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: What is "inferior process" ??
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 11:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020805180130.GA31192@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020805175442.GA16152@cissol7.cis.nctu.edu.tw>
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:54:42AM +0800, Zheng Jian-Ming wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am reading the GDB's source codes, and see the word "inferior process"
> many times (e.g. in gdb/inferior.h). But i don't understand what this
> really means.
>
> Is "inferior process" a child process or a parent process, or something
> else?
The inferior is the process being debugged, however many threads or
LWPs it may be.
> BTW, i only see function lin_lwp_resume() in gdb/lin-lwp.c, and wonder
> how to call/use this function.
It's called via to_resume in the target stack.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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2002-08-03 17:35 Wanted: GDB icon Andrew Cagney
2002-08-05 10:57 ` What is "inferior process" ?? Zheng Jian-Ming
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