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Re: Towards multiprocess GDB
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:02:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: Towards multiprocess GDB
- References: <4880FFA8.3080600@earthlink.net>
Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net> 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