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Re: Debugging through exec() (Linux MAY_FOLLOW_EXEC)
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:38:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: Debugging through exec() (Linux MAY_FOLLOW_EXEC)
- References: <20060721181556.GA9150@lace.redhat.com> <20060721184421.GA22820@nevyn.them.org> <20060722123102.GA1936@lace.redhat.com> <20060724190332.GA13612@nevyn.them.org> <20060729185317.GA16200@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <200607312038.k6VKchKj018729@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060805164144.GA23819@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20060808160113.GC21032@nevyn.them.org> <20060814150628.GA24544@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <u7j1b581f.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:20:12AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:06:28 +0200
> > From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> >
> > please review the proposed functionality to be able to debug though exec().
>
> Thanks. Please wait for others to comment; what's below are
> relatively minor comments.
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.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery