Multi-process and multi-target

[Paul_Koning@Dell.com]

Gentlepeople,

Multiprocess support looks like a nice way to debug multiple copies of a distributed application, provided the copies can be made to run on a single target system.  The user interface of multiprocess support is a bit clunky and it takes a fair amount of experimentation to figure out how things really work, but I could get it to work.

However, it is often the case that such a test setup involves multiple machines.  The multiprocess machinery seems to be perfectly capable of dealing with such a mix, even if the machines are not all the same architecture.  But there’s only one target.

I wonder about generalizing the target machinery to allow multiple targets to be active simultaneously, with a particular target associated with a set of inferiors.  Does this make sense?  Is there a better way?  Is someone already doing this?  If not, would such a project be welcomed?

	paul