Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 7.0 release process created

Jack Howarth
2009-09-20T19:12:19Z

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:37:07AM -0700, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
>
> This is not really related to GDB. Explanation (at least as far as I
> understand what's happening):
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-08/msg00085.html
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> > % sudo chgrp procmod gdb
> > % sudo chmod g+s gdb
>
> That appears to no longer be sufficient on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (at least
> it doesn't work for me):
>
> $ ls -l gdb/gdb
> -rwxrwsr-x 1 ppluzhnikov procmod 4416668 Sep 20 10:20 gdb/gdb
> $ gdb/gdb ./t
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.50.20090920-cvs
> ...
> Reading symbols from /Users/ppluzhnikov/gdb-cvs/build/t...(no
> debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /Users/ppluzhnikov/gdb-cvs/build/t
> Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 39624: (os/kern) failure (0x5).
> (please check gdb is setgid procmod)
> (gdb) q
>
>
> --
> Paul Pluzhnikov

I suspect if someone posts to llvm-dev (where a lot of the Apple dev tool
folks hang out) we might get a quick answer.
Jack