Re: Release symbol file

Fabian Cenedese
2004-09-23T06:29:11Z

>> Thanks, but what about the MI? I can't give switches to e.g
>> -file-exec-and-symbol, can I? I mean, once gdb is started. Or
>> do I have to stop and restart gdb every time?
>
>--readnow is a global flag. It turns on the "read now" behavior
>on all future calls to symbol_file_add_with_addrs_or_offsets.
>
>gdb does keep file descriptors open for the target program,
>but it ought to have all the symbols in memory after
>"expanding to full symbols".

I'm not concerned about the symbols but about the file access.
Even when started with "gdb --readnow -i mi" and load a file
I can't delete that file anymore. As I want to recreate it without
unloading from gdb I guess I need to make a copy then.

Thanks

bye Fabi