Re: [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb , remote protocol enhancement

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:01:13AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > this RFC tries to introduce a remote protocol enhancement, which
> > already has been implemented at Red Hat.  The idea is to allow
> > the remote target (which likely has no own file system at all)
> > to access the host file system to store and retrieve data from
> > a gdb session, as if the hosts filesystem is local to the target.
> 
> I think you will eventually want `dup' and `dup2' primitives in addition 
> to what you described.

Sure.  As I wrote, it's easy to add more system calls at some
later point.  The proposal introduces what is already implemented.

> I'm also wondering why do you need `stat' in addition to `fstat'.

These are the calls which seem to server best to implement first
applications.  I think it's hard to find a collection of "best" 
calls from the beginning.

> Other than that, sounds like a very good idea to me.

Thanks!

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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