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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>
Cc: GDB General ML <gdb@sourceware.org>,
		Ewa Matejska <Ewa.Matejska@palmsource.com>
Subject: Re: Follow-fork with gdbserver
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060823034351.GA9228@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156293099.9019.28.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Hey Daniel, 
> 
> How difficult, and how interesting, do you think it would be
> to add follow-fork support to gdbserver for native linux?

I did it once for a customer.  It wasn't terribly hard, but it was an
incredibly bad hack, because GDB normally does some futzing around with
breakpoints on fork events; gdbserver doesn't have a breakpoint list,
so it doesn't know what to do.  So I had it capture some memory writes
and replay them.

Nowadays gdbserver still doesn't set software breakpoints (Z0/z0), but
it does have most of the infrastructure to do it.  So, it would
probably be easier to design the new packets without my ugly hack.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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2006-08-23  0:31 Michael Snyder
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