From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4988 invoked by alias); 18 Jun 2003 20:10:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4813 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2003 20:10:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2003 20:10:14 -0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (nat-pool-rdu-dmz.redhat.com [172.16.52.200] (may be forged)) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5IKADH11427 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:10:13 -0400 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5IKACS29093; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:10:12 -0400 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5IKABK18810; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:10:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3EF0C723.3000109@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:10:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Warkentin CC: Kevin Buettner , Daniel Jacobowitz , "Gdb@Sources.Redhat.Com" Subject: Re: Why does solib_open do what it does? References: <09c201c33502$da555ce0$0202040a@catdog> <20030617191129.GA15099@nevyn.them.org> <09e801c33504$bd88b420$0202040a@catdog> <1030617200144.ZM31327@localhost.localdomain> <0ab001c3350d$359af2e0$0202040a@catdog> <1030617202406.ZM31423@localhost.localdomain> <3EEFAEDB.4090509@redhat.com> <005101c3353c$80077c70$2a00a8c0@dash> <1030618051511.ZM11645@localhost.localdomain> <003301c33594$3e6bccf0$2a00a8c0@dash> <008e01c335ab$72a101e0$0202040a@catdog> <3EF0B485.6050805@redhat.com> <019f01c335cd$0a119c80$0202040a@catdog> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00396.txt.bz2 Kris Warkentin wrote: >msnyder: >>Kris Warkentin wrote: >>I rather think that $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be native-only. >>But come to think of it, do remote targets even have environment >>variables? > >>And if so -- do they inherit them from gdb / the host? If there's a >>gdbserver-type situation, and if the server is able to provide the true >>environment variables from the target, then yes, we should use these. >>But I don't recall any gdbserver ever offering that functionality. > > Our pdebug remote protocol allows us to 'set qnxinheritenv true/false'. > This determines whether gdb will send it's environment to the target or > whether the target will inherit from the pdebug server. Cool, and I presume you can then read them back. In that case, (assuming the child inherits from the target side server), wouldn't you want LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be searched? If the linker-loader picks up libc from one place, but gdb picks it up from someplace else, you're hosed.