From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: archer@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Q: multiple inferiors, all-stop && vCont
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100723173134.GA29717@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100721204203.D040C400B6@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On 07/21, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > I am trying to undestand what ugdb should know about the multiple
> > inferiors. Looks like, I shouldn't worry at all. They do not exist
> > from gdbserver's pov. It should handle the multiple attach/detach,
> > of course, but that is all. Say, qsThreadInfo should list all
> > attached threads in random order. IOW, there is no any command
> > which can refer to any particular inferior somehow, explicitly or
> > implicitly. Only THREAD-ID can matter.
>
> I'm not sure what the story on gdb's multi-process support is and how that
> relates to remote protocol details. It's fine to start out by only
> worrying about being attached to a single process with all its threads.
> Certainly we want to be handling multiple processes well at some point, so
> don't structure things so it would be especially difficult. But it is
> probably the case that representing that notion on the remote protocol is
> all a bit of a muddle, and you shouldn't worry about resolving that before
> moving ahead.
>
> > So. Reference to actual practice doesn't help, I suspect it is buggy.
>
> Well, actual practice of rarely-used features, anyway.
> Multi-process is newfangled and apparently quite unreliable.
> Single-process, multi-thread is what is used a lot.
OK. I'll try to send something more or less working on Monday.
I guess, non-stop mode is more interesting/important than all-stop.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-16 20:54 Q: mutlithreaded tracees && clone/exit Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-16 21:40 ` Roland McGrath
2010-07-18 17:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-18 18:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-18 20:22 ` Roland McGrath
2010-07-19 13:44 ` BUG: add_thread_silent()->switch_to_thread(minus_one_ptid) is wrong Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-19 15:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-19 16:01 ` Q: mutlithreaded tracees && clone/exit Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-19 22:57 ` Roland McGrath
2010-07-20 13:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-20 14:04 ` BUG? gdb, non-stop && c -a Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-20 14:12 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-20 14:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-20 15:08 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-20 15:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-20 19:43 ` Roland McGrath
2010-07-21 7:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-21 8:10 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-21 11:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-20 14:21 ` Q: mutlithreaded tracees && clone/exit Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-20 15:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-20 19:41 ` Roland McGrath
2010-07-21 8:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-20 14:43 ` Q: who maintains the STOPPED/RUNNING state? Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <y0mk4ophmvn.fsf@fche.csb>
2010-07-21 10:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-21 10:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-21 17:06 ` Q: multiple inferiors, all-stop && vCont Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-21 20:42 ` Roland McGrath
2010-07-23 17:33 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-07-26 14:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-26 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-28 18:19 ` gdbstub initial code, another approach Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-29 21:38 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-07-30 13:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-30 13:16 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-07-30 15:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-30 13:25 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-30 14:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-30 15:20 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-08-02 12:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 13:55 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-30 17:59 ` Tom Tromey
2010-08-02 18:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-02 23:54 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-08-03 12:27 ` Q: %Stop && gdb crash Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 13:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 19:57 ` Kevin Buettner
2010-08-04 19:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-04 23:32 ` Kevin Buettner
2010-08-05 18:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 13:36 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-08-03 15:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 12:39 ` Q: multiple inferiors, all-stop && vCont Jan Kratochvil
2010-08-03 14:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 15:55 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-08-03 16:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 18:37 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-08-18 17:07 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-08-18 19:22 ` Roland McGrath
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