Re: add-inferior / clone-inferior

[David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>]

Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> This is expected since you can actually have two inferiors, but you are 
> only allowed to connect to a single remote target at one time.
> 
> What would've worked is first connecting to a remote target in 
> *extended* remote mode. Then you would be able to attach to more than a 
> process at a time, or start more than a process at a time.
> 
> By using "target remote", you're really trying to debug an already 
> active process running on a remote system.
> 
> I'd suggest reading about the extended remote mode. That looks like what 
> you want, though multiprocess support is still a WIP.

Actually, no.  The issue is not extended-remote vs remote.  We have boxes
with multiple boards each running a kernel.  The box I tried running gdb
against on Thursday has 10 boards of interest.  Each running its own
instance of the kernel -- 2 instances each of 5 different versions of
the kernel.

For that machine if I want to talk to all 10 boards, then I need 10
different tcp connections -- each talking to a different gdb stub.