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Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement multiple-filesystem support for remote targets
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:31:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement multiple-filesystem support for remote targets
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On 04/16/2015 01:19 PM, Gary Benson wrote:
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 62cbdcb..a9f05e4 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
> (no "set sysroot" or "file" commands are required). See "New remote
> packets" below.
>
> +* GDB and gdbserver now support attaching to processes running in
> + different mount namespaces from the debugger on GNU/Linux systems.
> + See "New remote packets" below.
Reading this, I'm left wondering what this really means, because I
think we could already attach before. What the user needed to do before
was point the "set sysroot" somewhere, while now, if the sysroot
is left to "target:", that's no longer necessary. Is that right?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves