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Re: Is GDB support for IPv6 useful?
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at sibelius dot xs4all dot nl>
- To: drow at false dot org
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:33:41 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Is GDB support for IPv6 useful?
- References: <20061009190037.GA22579@nevyn.them.org>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:00:37 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> Jan Kratochvil posted patches on the gdb-patches mailing list which add
> support for both "target remote" connecting to IPv6 targets, and gdbserver
> listening on IPv6 targets.
>
> You can already simulate this behavior for GDB, by using "target remote |"
> in combination with a helper like socat. If support were added to gdbserver
> for using arbitrary file descriptors - not hard, as you can see from Jan's
> latest patch - it could do the same.
I think native IPv6 support would be preferable if there actually
people using it.
> But what I'm really interested in is whether native IPv6 support would be
> useful for GDB. If it is, we should go ahead and merge it. If no one or
> almost no one is ever going to want it, then we shouldn't, and I can write
> up some text for the manual about how to use an external program to
> implement it.
>
> I have never used IPv6, for debugging or anything else, so I don't feel able
> to make a useful decision about this. I'd like to hear from some people who
> do use it.
Me neither.
Mark