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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
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Subject: Re: Multi-process and 'inferior'
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:21:43AM -0400, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With multi-process debugging, what will the 'inferior' be?

In what context?  Conceptually, I'd guess it all the attached
processes would be inferiors.

> In fact, currently, when using attach/detach with gdbserver, what is 
> considered the inferior?  I assume that the inferior is the process 
> GDB is currently attached to, right?

Yes.  It's no different than local attach/detach.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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