[binutils-gdb] Announce new container-awareness features for GNU/Linux systems

[Gary Benson <gary at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=51aad7cc44161ebbd2eea80647391c692ae330ac

commit 51aad7cc44161ebbd2eea80647391c692ae330ac
Author: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 10 14:28:44 2015 +0100

    Announce new container-awareness features for GNU/Linux systems
    
    This commit announces the newly added ability to directly access
    executable and shared library files when attaching to processes
    running in containers on GNU/Linux systems.
    
    gdb/ChangeLog:
    
    	* NEWS: Announce support for direct access of executable and
    	shared library files when attaching to inferiors in containers
    	on GNU/Linux systems.

Diff:
---
 gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
 gdb/NEWS      | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 8598352..55b7d4f 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2015-06-10  Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
 
+	* NEWS: Announce support for direct access of executable and
+	shared library files when attaching to inferiors in containers
+	on GNU/Linux systems.
+
+2015-06-10  Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
+
 	* remote.c (struct remote_state) <fs_pid>: New field.
 	(new_remote_state): Initialize the above.
 	(PACKET_vFile_setfs): New enum value.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 23f20a7..132d444 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@
 
 * GDB now supports the vector ABI on S/390 GNU/Linux targets.
 
+* On GNU/Linux, GDB and gdbserver are now able to access executable
+  and shared library files without a "set sysroot" command when
+  attaching to processes running in different mount namespaces from
+  the debugger.  This makes it possible to attach to processes in
+  containers as simply as "gdb -p PID" or "gdbserver --attach PID".
+  See "New remote packets" below.
+
 * Guile Scripting
 
   ** Memory ports can now be unbuffered.