From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Forbid run with a core file loaded
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100521150428.GQ3019@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005211447.o4LEl7tQ019880@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
> > there is already a protection against loading a core file when a program is
> > running.
>
> That makes sense. But what you are suggesting doesn't.
>
> I often start gdb and load a core file to investigate a problem. Then
> I set a breakpoint at some point before the crash and run the program
> again. This used to work just fine.
There might have been a poor choice of words in the subject - Based on
the patch, Jan is not proposing to actually forbid that operation.
Rather, he's suggesting we add a confirmation query before actually
restarting the inferior. Would you agree to such a change?
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-21 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-21 14:47 Jan Kratochvil
2010-05-21 15:02 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-05-21 15:05 ` Pedro Alves
2010-05-21 15:54 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-05-21 16:08 ` Pedro Alves
2010-05-21 15:05 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-05-21 15:40 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-05-23 19:38 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-05-23 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-06 19:51 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-06-06 23:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-07 11:21 ` Pedro Alves
2010-06-08 2:33 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-08 11:03 ` Pedro Alves
2010-07-08 17:17 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-08 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-19 18:02 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-19 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-19 18:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-27 16:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-19 14:37 ` Pedro Alves
2010-05-23 21:16 ` Pedro Alves
2010-05-21 15:07 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-05-21 15:04 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-05-21 15:06 ` Pedro Alves
2010-05-21 15:15 ` Joel Brobecker
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