[PATCH] GDBSERVER: Listen on a unix domain (instead of TCP) socket if requested.

[Pedro Alves]

On 10/09/2018 07:41 PM, John Darrington wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 07:02:14PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>      On 10/09/2018 06:32 PM, John Darrington wrote:
>      > When invoking gdbserver, if the COMM parameter does not include a colon (:) and
>      > is not the name of an existing character device, then a local (unix) domain
>      > socket will be created with that name and gdbserver will listen for connections
>      > on that.
>      
>      Is that "colon/no-colon" magic something that tools frequently do?
> 
> Not exactly.  Tools with which I'm familiar with work as follows:
> 
> :1234           Creates a unix domain socket on the local host called 1234
> localhost:1234  Listens on TCP port 1234
> 
> which is the way I think gdb ought to work, but this would be
> inconsistent with it's current behaviour and cause confusion if somebody
> used an old version of gdb with a new version of gdbserver or
> vici-versa.

In that example you didn't even pass a path to a unix domain socket.
You let the tool create it, I suppose.  It doesn't feel like
apples to apples.

In those tools you know, how would you pass the path to the local
socket then?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves