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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move vgdb special case into remote_filesystem_is_local
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55547C8B.5050000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430146276-15606-1-git-send-email-gbenson@redhat.com>

On 04/27/2015 03:51 PM, Gary Benson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Valgrind GDB (vgdb) presents itself as a remote target but works on
> the local filesystem.  gdb_bfd_open contained a special case to make
> vgdb work with "target:" sysroots, but the implementation meant that
> GDB would fall back to the local filesystem if *any* to_fileio_open
> method failed with ENOSYS for *any* reason. 

Can you give an example target where we'd want this to behave differently?

E.g,. what should happen with "target sim" ?

> This commit moves the
> vgdb special case to remote_filesystem_is_local to allow the fallback
> to be restricted only to the specific case that remote file transfer
> is unsupported.  This commit also adds a warning which is displayed
> the first time the fallback is used.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-27 14:51 Gary Benson
2015-05-07 10:09 ` [PING][PATCH] " Gary Benson
2015-05-14 10:44 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2015-05-15  9:02   ` [PATCH] " Gary Benson
2015-05-15 11:32     ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-15 13:19       ` Gary Benson
2015-05-19 11:10         ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-27  9:50           ` Gary Benson
2015-06-05 15:13             ` [pushed] " Gary Benson

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