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Re: Move the multi-forks support to the generic multi-inferiors support.
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:56:32 -0600
- Subject: Re: Move the multi-forks support to the generic multi-inferiors support.
- References: <200905310013.38916.pedro@codesourcery.com> <m3hbz1vw5u.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <200905312308.04692.pedro@codesourcery.com>
- Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:
Tom> I guess "info inferiors" would show all the checkpointed forks for a
Tom> given inferior?
Pedro> That's one option, sure. I haven't given much attention to user
Pedro> interface details of checkpoints. Another idea we be to just flag that
Pedro> there are checkpoints available, and then the user can do the usual
Pedro> "info checkpoints" to see them.
I completely forgot about 'info checkpoints'. So, ignore all that,
sorry.
Tom> BTW, I think the "info inferiors" output still needs cleaning up, a la
Tom> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-11/msg00666.html
Pedro> If you look at head's "info inferiors" output, it's not about cleaning
Pedro> up, it's about cooking something. :-)
Actually I hadn't looked at the code, I just tried it and saw that
there were still no column headings. I'll try to update that old
patch soon.
Pedro> [...] please consider that branch closed, as it had serious
Pedro> limitations and design "problems")
Thanks for the heads up.
Tom