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From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb remote protocol enhancement
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021113155154.V10395@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021113143140.GA7232@nevyn.them.org>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:31:40AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:35:22PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:25:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Ick, 32-bit st_ino... why bother to transfer it if you say "no meaning
> > > for the target"?
> > 
> > The point is mainly to have all fields available which a POSIX compliant
> > application may expect.
> 
> Right; but you require that the stub convert to host format anyway, so

In case of the stat structure it's always gdb which creates/sends the
structure.  The struct is filled by gdb on behalf of the target OS.
I'm not aware of a system call which takes a stat struct as input parameter.

> it seems odd to send the unused members over the wire.  I guess they
> might be used someday.

So you'd change st_ino to 64 bit?

Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen@redhat.com


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-13 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-11  4:14 Corinna Vinschen
2002-11-11 22:01 ` [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb , " Eli Zaretskii
2002-11-12  0:40   ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-11-12 13:24 ` [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb " Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]   ` <20021113143522.T10395@cygbert.vinschen.de>
2002-11-13  6:30     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-13  6:52       ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2002-11-13  7:08         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-13  7:44           ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-02-26 21:19   ` Andrew Cagney

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