set sysroot rescans, but only if run twice

[Andrey Utkin <autkin at undo dot io>]

Hi,

I would appreciate some explanation of how "set sysroot" is supposed to
work. I almost got an impression that it is supposed to rescan "all
known binaries" (just like "set solib-search-path"), besides other
things. This seems to happen in most of cases, but apparently not in
every case.

For example, let's create a remote debugging session with localhost, and
then set sysroot to / . My expectation was that the backtrace would have
all information after "set sysroot /", but it was not the case. However,
a second "set sysroot /" did it. "Insanity is repeating the same and
expecting different results", right?

Say, we attach gdbserver to some trivial process like "sleep":


$ sleep 500h &
[1] 2757
$ gdbserver --attach :5555 $!
Attached; pid = 2757
Listening on port 5555
Remote debugging from host 127.0.0.1


Then we attach to gdbserver:


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(gdb) target remote :5555
Remote debugging using :5555
Reading /bin/sleep from remote target...
warning: File transfers from remote targets can be slow. Use "set sysroot" to access files locally instead.
Reading /bin/sleep from remote target...
Reading symbols from target:/bin/sleep...Reading /bin/sleep.debug from remote target...
Reading /bin/.debug/sleep.debug from remote target...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/bin//sleep.debug...done.
done.
Reading /lib64/libc.so.6 from remote target...
Reading /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 from remote target...
Reading symbols from target:/lib64/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from target:/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done.
Reading /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 from remote target...
0x00007f7277f8d495 in __GI___nanosleep (requested_time=requested_time@entry=0x7ffef6d02e40, remaining=remaining@entry=0x0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nanosleep.c:27
27      ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nanosleep.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f7277f8d495 in __GI___nanosleep (requested_time=requested_time@entry=0x7ffef6d02e40, remaining=remaining@entry=0x0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nanosleep.c:27
#1  0x000056334afe81c3 in rpl_nanosleep (requested_delay=requested_delay@entry=0x7ffef6d02e80, remaining_delay=remaining_delay@entry=0x0) at lib/nanosleep.c:85
#2  0x000056334afe7fbd in xnanosleep (seconds=<optimized out>) at lib/xnanosleep.c:51
#3  0x000056334afe5be8 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7ffef6d02fe8) at src/sleep.c:150
(gdb) file /bin/sleep
A program is being debugged already.
Are you sure you want to change the file? (y or n) y
Load new symbol table from "/bin/sleep"? (y or n) y
Reading symbols from /bin/sleep...Load new symbol table from "/usr/lib/debug//bin/sleep.debug"? (y or n) y
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//bin/sleep.debug...done.
done.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f7277f8d495 in __GI___nanosleep (requested_time=0x7ffef6d02e40, remaining=0x0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nanosleep.c:27
#1  0x000056334afe81c3 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000000001b7740 in ?? ()
#3  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) show remote exec-file
(null)
(gdb) set remote exec-file /bin/sleep
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f7277f8d495 in __GI___nanosleep (requested_time=0x7ffef6d02e40, remaining=0x0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nanosleep.c:27
#1  0x000056334afe81c3 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000000001b7740 in ?? ()
#3  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) set sysroot /
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f7277f8d495 in ?? ()
#1  0x00007f727845c480 in ?? ()
#2  0x00007ffef6d02e70 in ?? ()
#3  0x00000000001b7740 in ?? ()
#4  0x3e01475224fd8c00 in ?? ()
#5  0x0000000000000010 in ?? ()
#6  0x000056334afe81c3 in rpl_nanosleep (requested_delay=requested_delay@entry=0x7ffef6d02e80, remaining_delay=remaining_delay@entry=0x0) at lib/nanosleep.c:85
#7  0x000056334afe7fbd in xnanosleep (seconds=<optimized out>) at lib/xnanosleep.c:51
#8  0x000056334afe5be8 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7ffef6d02fe8) at src/sleep.c:150
(gdb) set sysroot /
Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f7277f8d495 in __GI___nanosleep (requested_time=requested_time@entry=0x7ffef6d02e40, remaining=remaining@entry=0x0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nanosleep.c:27
#1  0x000056334afe81c3 in rpl_nanosleep (requested_delay=requested_delay@entry=0x7ffef6d02e80, remaining_delay=remaining_delay@entry=0x0) at lib/nanosleep.c:85
#2  0x000056334afe7fbd in xnanosleep (seconds=<optimized out>) at lib/xnanosleep.c:51
#3  0x000056334afe5be8 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7ffef6d02fe8) at src/sleep.c:150
(gdb)