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From: "Paul Pluzhnikov" <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: "Michael Snyder" <msnyder@specifix.com>
Cc: "Stan Shebs" <stanshebs@earthlink.net>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Towards multiprocess GDB
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ac60eac0807211057w11e9174aqc50f7f20531b127@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216599968.3549.478.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com> wrote:

> I am a big lover of the incremental approach.
>
> How about this as a first increment?  Could we extend
> what we now have with forks, so that GDB could individually
> control the separate process ids (including threads, if they
> have them), while forestalling dealing with separate symbol
> files because forks can all share the same one?

I would like to add another twist (which I don't see mentioned
elsewhere in this thread yet): cluster computing.

Google (and I am sure many others) has great interest in being
able to debug potentially 1000s of instances of execution of the
same program on multiple hosts. [Naturally, each host will have at
least one gdbserver running.]

This is almost, but not quite the same as what Michael suggests
above.

-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov

[Not officially speaking for Google.]


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-18 20:50 Stan Shebs
2008-07-18 21:21 ` Paul Koning
2008-07-18 21:41   ` Stan Shebs
2008-07-21  0:34   ` Michael Snyder
2008-07-18 22:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-07-18 22:20   ` David Daney
2008-07-18 22:28   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-07-18 23:09   ` Stan Shebs
2008-07-19  3:53     ` Pedro Alves
2008-07-21 17:39       ` Stan Shebs
2008-07-21  1:53   ` Michael Snyder
2008-07-21 16:08     ` Russell Shaw
2008-07-21 17:57   ` Joel Brobecker
2008-07-18 23:13 ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-21 17:11   ` Stan Shebs
2008-07-21  0:30 ` Michael Snyder
2008-07-21 18:21   ` Paul Pluzhnikov [this message]
2008-07-21 18:32   ` Stan Shebs
2008-07-21 16:38 ` Michael Eager
2008-07-21 21:54   ` Stan Shebs
2008-07-31 22:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor

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