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To: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
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Subject: Re: What has replaced fork to launch external commands?
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> I thought I would give the latest gdb(5.3) a spin and see if it could
> interface with ST's gdb server to talk to my ICE. The original gcc is
> dated 20020211.

What did you upgrade from?  GDB has a shell command, but not fork.

Andrew


> Happy that it all built ok for my target system it fell over on startup
> because the "fork" command used to lauch the gdbserver seems to of
> disapeared:
>   fork shlaunch -si $arg0 -gdbserv host=$arg1 -cid0 host=$arg1

Try:

  shell shlaunch -si $arg0 -gdbserv host=$arg1 -cid0 host=$arg1 &


> noposixconsole
> 
> Is there a drop-in replacement? I greped the Changelogs but all the fork
> references seem to be talking about debugged processes rather than
> commands.
> 
> -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ "I'm a cat person, myself," she said, vaguely. A low-level voice said: "Yeah? Yeah? Wash in your own spit, do you?" -- It's a dog's life (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)