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Re: [PATCH 6/7] Implement multiple-filesystem support for remote targets


Pedro Alves wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, it's more about accessing files than attaching per se.
I think I need to spend some time rewriting the docs for this
series...

Cheers,
Gary

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