Re: multi-proc: info processes?

Michael Snyder
2008-11-12T21:22:42Z

Stan Shebs wrote:
> Michael Snyder wrote:
>> Hey Pedro,
>>
>> For your multi-process work, are you planning anything
>> analogous to the "info threads" command, eg. "info processes"?
> Look at "info inferiors". It's just the processes (or whatever) that are
> currently being controlled by GDB.
>> What might that look like, in your model? Would it list,
>> say, just the processes that gdb is attached to? Or would
>> you want something analogous to "ps", that would list all
>> of the processes that are available to be attached?
> That would be somewhat ambitious, especially for a remote target - I
> think you'd need a new packet just to return the list of processes...

Sure -- by analogy with qfThreadInfo/qsThreadInfo, it could
be implemented as an iterator.

I'm not sure how desireable it is, but it could save you
from having to go over to the remote target and typing "ps"...

By the way, what about remote attach? Is that in the plan?