/proc is high-efficient, why not use it?

[Andrew Cagney]

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:21:10PM +0800, vera0010 wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have read gdb-5.3 source. I know it uses primarily on x86/alpha linux platform.
>> 
>> But a debugger can only debug the unique process, not more processes simultaneously.
> 
> 
> That is incorrect.  GDB can debug any number of physical processes at
> once.  However, GDB only supports this when they are threads of the
> same program.

Getting support for multiple independant processes is on the long term 
wish list.

Andrew