From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12982 invoked by alias); 14 Aug 2006 21:39:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 12973 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Aug 2006 21:39:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:38:59 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GCk93-0000Nn-Q0; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:38:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:39:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Jan Kratochvil , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Debugging through exec() (Linux MAY_FOLLOW_EXEC) Message-ID: <20060814213849.GA1433@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Jan Kratochvil , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20060721181556.GA9150@lace.redhat.com> <20060721184421.GA22820@nevyn.them.org> <20060722123102.GA1936@lace.redhat.com> <20060724190332.GA13612@nevyn.them.org> <20060729185317.GA16200@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <200607312038.k6VKchKj018729@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060805164144.GA23819@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20060808160113.GC21032@nevyn.them.org> <20060814150628.GA24544@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00120.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:20:12AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:06:28 +0200 > > From: Jan Kratochvil > > Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > please review the proposed functionality to be able to debug though exec(). > > Thanks. Please wait for others to comment; what's below are > relatively minor comments. Eli, have you got an opinion on the broader question, by chance? This is really an issue of use cases and interface; the technical changes I'm ok to handle by myself, but there are broader questions about how this would work (did work, on HP/UX, at some point in the past) and should work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery