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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: "Breazeal, Don" <donb@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: problem with new vforkdone stop reply in 7.10
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F828D9.8050100@redhat.com> (raw)

Hi Don,

Unfortunately, I missed in review that the vforkdone stop reply
misses indicating the thread ID of the vfork parent which the
event relates to:

 @cindex vfork events, remote reply
 @item vfork
 The packet indicates that @code{vfork} was called, and @var{r}
 is the thread ID of the new child process. Refer to
 @ref{thread-id syntax} for the format of the @var{thread-id}
 field.  This packet is only applicable to targets that support
 vfork events.

 @cindex vforkdone events, remote reply
 @item vforkdone
 The packet indicates that a child process created by a vfork
 has either called @code{exec} or terminated, so that the
 address spaces of the parent and child process are no longer
 shared. The @var{r} part is ignored.  This packet is only
 applicable to targets that support vforkdone events.

Unfortunately, this is not just a documentation issue.  GDBserver
is really not specifying the thread ID.  I noticed because
in non-stop mode, gdb complains:

 [Thread 6089.6089] #1 stopped.
 #0  0x0000003615a011f0 in ?? ()
 0x0000003615a011f0 in ?? ()
 (gdb) set debug remote 1
 (gdb) c
 Continuing.
 Sending packet: $QPassSignals:e;10;14;17;1a;1b;1c;21;24;25;2c;4c;#5f...Packet received: OK
 Sending packet: $vCont;c:p17c9.17c9#88...Packet received: OK
   Notification received: Stop:T05vfork:p17ce.17ce;06:40d7ffffff7f0000;07:30d7ffffff7f0000;10:e4c9eb1536000000;thread:p17c9.17c9;core:2;
 Sending packet: $vStopped#55...Packet received: OK
 Sending packet: $D;17ce#af...Packet received: OK
 Sending packet: $vCont;c:p17c9.17c9#88...Packet received: OK
   Notification received: Stop:T05vforkdone:;
 No process or thread specified in stop reply: T05vforkdone:;
 (gdb)

This is not non-stop-mode-specific, however.  Consider e.g., that
in all-stop, you may be debugging more than one process at the
same time.  You continue, and both processes vfork.  So if you next
a T05vforkdone, how can we tell which of the parent processes
has had its child exit/exec?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-15 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15 14:19 Pedro Alves [this message]
2015-09-15 14:51 ` Don Breazeal
2015-09-15 14:51 ` Pedro Alves
2015-09-15 15:46   ` Don Breazeal
2015-09-15 15:56     ` Pedro Alves
2015-09-15 18:14   ` Pedro Alves

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