About remote target AF_UNIX socket addition ?

[Pedro Alves]

On Friday 27 March 2009 14:39:15, Philippe Waille wrote:

>   The target command allows remote stub access through TCP sockets.
>   Could it be extended to local unix domain (AF_UNIX) sockets as well ?
> 
>   gdb> target remote | some_stub_target                  /* existing  */
>   gdb> target remote tcp:host:ip_port_number             /* existing  */
>   gdb> target remote unix:local_filesystem_port_name     /* suggested */
> 
> 
>   Typical usage :
>   + a set of users perform debugging on a shared POSIX server
>   + each user execute gdb and a target (a processor simulator, for instance),
> both on the local server
>   + the target stub does not offer the remote pipe connection method,
> but allows socket connections.
> 
>   Each user has to be allocated a private port name in order to bind its 
> gdb with its target. It is easier to do in the AF_UNIX local 
> filesystem naming space than in the gloabl TCP/IP port numbering space.

I'm not objecting, but, my knee jerk reaction would be to implement a
netcat/socat-like stub that does stdio <-> unix socket forwarding, so
you'd use:

 target remote | mypipe_to_socket_gateway

-- 
Pedro Alves