From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6620 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2008 20:03:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 6612 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2008 20:03:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from yosemite.airs.com (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (64.13.131.148) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:03:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 21865 invoked by uid 10); 31 Jul 2008 20:02:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 15540 invoked by uid 500); 31 Jul 2008 20:02:54 -0000 To: Stan Shebs Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Towards multiprocess GDB References: <4880FFA8.3080600@earthlink.net> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4880FFA8.3080600@earthlink.net> (Stan Shebs's message of "Fri\, 18 Jul 2008 13\:40\:08 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00354.txt.bz2 Stan Shebs writes: > CodeSourcery has a project to add "multiprocess" capability to GDB, > and with this message I'd like to kick off some discussion of what > that means and how to make it happen. > > To put it simply, the goal of the project is to make this command work > in some useful way: > > gdb prog1 prog2 pid2 prog3 prog4 I am certainly interested in having this happen. I just want to add that in the cases I most care about the different programs are actually running on different machines. That should fall out pretty naturally, using gdbserver, from this work if done right; I'm just chiming in now to make sure that that capability is considered as a goal from the start. Thanks. Ian