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From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
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To: Kalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: support for multiprocess debugging
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Kalpak Shah wrote:
> We are creating multiprocess debugging support inside GDB on the lines
> of Etnus's Totalview.
> We will have utilities like attaching processes to a process group,
> barrier points,etc. I havent yet dived into the internals of DDD, but
> from what I know adding good front end support for my extension to GDB
> will entail a lot of work. Do you think DDD is suitable for this job?

DDD != insight. Ask on a more appropriate forum.

As for insight, at one time, Red Hat had plans to tweak the interface to 
support GDB's multi-arch (which doesn't seem to have matured to anyplace 
substantially different than what I remember five or so years ago), so 
it can definitely be done.

Keith