From: Sterling Augustine <saugustine@google.com>
To: Muhammad Umer <umer2834@hotmail.com>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>,
"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: GDB locks RPM database
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 18:13:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEG7qUzty8y1uKmc6DEd578OOwG2P-mGXN5AQZo72R7D_8+2Qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SG2PR06MB295166D1C8FBC060EA550DF0CDB60@SG2PR06MB2951.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com>
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 6:11 PM Muhammad Umer via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
wrote:
> But why take a lock? If the purpose is to get info about debug packages,
> why not just query the package database using rpm command and get the
> required information? Why is taking a lock necessary?
>
Simon didn't implement the functionality, so you would have to ask redhat,
or whomever it was that wrote the code. This is not a part of a normal gdb
installation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2020-05-20 0:28 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-20 1:11 ` Muhammad Umer
2020-05-20 1:13 ` Sterling Augustine [this message]
2020-05-20 2:48 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-20 5:04 ` Muhammad Umer
2020-05-20 9:39 ` Jan Kratochvil
2020-05-20 14:11 ` Muhammad Umer
2020-05-20 14:34 ` Jan Kratochvil
2020-05-21 0:17 ` Muhammad Umer
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