From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32525 invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2003 21:02:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29453 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2003 21:00:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.drexel.edu) (144.118.25.40) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Jun 2003 21:00:58 -0000 Received: from webmail.drexel.edu (webmail.drexel.edu [144.118.25.20]) by mail.drexel.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9) with ESMTP id <0HGD00AGSZPIMQ@mail.drexel.edu> for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:02:00 -0000 From: nak26 Subject: RE: examining remote core dumps; MT support for attach; To: Daniel Jacobowitz , Kevin Buettner Cc: drow , gdb Message-id: <3EE9181A@webmail.drexel.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-WebMail-UserID: nak26 X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00003005 X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00223.txt.bz2 >===== Original Message From Kevin Buettner ===== >On Jun 12, 4:17pm, nak26 wrote: > >> >> 1. Is it possible to examine a core file on a remote machine, in the cases, >> >> where fetching the core is undesirable due to the thinness of the pipe. >> > >> >This is not supported. >> >> Can anybody think of another way of doing that (not involving gdbserver)? > >Either copy the file to the host or use some sort of remote filesystem >mount (e.g. NFS) to get at the core file. > >I have a feeling that this isn't exactly what you wanted to hear though... > >Kevin Copying is not desirable. Cross-mounting is an option. Thanks, --Nik