From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8436 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2015 22:49:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 8422 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jan 2015 22:49:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:49:47 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1YAnns-0004LS-68 from Don_Breazeal@mentor.com ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:49:44 -0800 Received: from [172.30.2.253] (147.34.91.1) by SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.224.2; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:49:43 -0800 Message-ID: <54B44F82.7020807@codesourcery.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:49:00 -0000 From: "Breazeal, Don" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: , Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16 v3] Extended-remote Linux follow fork References: <5465012C.9060708@codesourcery.com> <1421102362-8902-1-git-send-email-donb@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <1421102362-8902-1-git-send-email-donb@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00322.txt.bz2 On 1/12/2015 2:39 PM, Don Breazeal wrote: > Pedro Alves wrote: >> I'm not even seeing a fundamental need >> to keep this for "extended-remote" alone, given gdb nowadays supports >> the multiprocess extensions with "target remote" too. > > I agree that we should do this. As I described in the update to patch 04 > (https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-01/msg00320.html), I ran into > several issues with implementing follow-fork for target remote. I think > the underlying target remote support, eliminating "gdbserver exit when > inferior terminates", deserves its own patch, and I'd like to defer that in > favor of making progress on the extended-remote piece. > BTW, it would be helpful to me to have an explanation of why the two remote protocols exist (remote and extended-remote) and what the long-term plan or vision is for each of them. Like, will they eventually just be merged into a single protocol? I'm pretty sure I've had an incorrect view of this, and I haven't found an answer to "why" by searching for it. Thanks! --Don