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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb , remote protocol enhancement
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021112075810.15374E@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021111131354.N10395@cygbert.vinschen.de>


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> this RFC tries to introduce a remote protocol enhancement, which
> already has been implemented at Red Hat.  The idea is to allow
> the remote target (which likely has no own file system at all)
> to access the host file system to store and retrieve data from
> a gdb session, as if the hosts filesystem is local to the target.

I think you will eventually want `dup' and `dup2' primitives in addition 
to what you described.

I'm also wondering why do you need `stat' in addition to `fstat'.

Other than that, sounds like a very good idea to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-12  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-11  4:14 [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb " Corinna Vinschen
2002-11-11 22:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-11-12  0:40   ` [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb , " Corinna Vinschen
2002-11-12 13:24 ` [RFC] File-I/O, target access to host file system via gdb " Daniel Jacobowitz
     [not found]   ` <20021113143522.T10395@cygbert.vinschen.de>
2002-11-13  6:30     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-13  6:52       ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-11-13  7:08         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-13  7:44           ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-02-26 21:19   ` Andrew Cagney

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