Re: Debugging through exec() (Linux MAY_FOLLOW_EXEC)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:38:49 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> Eli, have you got an opinion on the broader question, by chance?
> 
> This is really an issue of use cases and interface; the technical
> changes I'm ok to handle by myself, but there are broader questions
> about how this would work (did work, on HP/UX, at some point in the
> past) and should work.

I was afraid you'll ask ;-)

The thing is, I couldn't figure out the broader context of this
suggested change, from what was posted.  There's not enough info; for
example, no source code of the test program which was used to
demonstrate the change in behavior.  The simple transcript of a debug
session was not nearly as self-explanatory as Jan seemed to think.

I will be happy to think about this and speak my views, if Jan (or
someone else) describes in more detail what is wrong with the current
behavior, what is the idea behind his proposal, and how it will change
GDB's behavior across `exec'.