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gdb/2122: attach command does not accept PID in a variable
- From: aregmi at gmail dot com
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 4 May 2006 20:00:10 -0000
- Subject: gdb/2122: attach command does not accept PID in a variable
- Reply-to: aregmi at gmail dot com
>Number: 2122
>Category: gdb
>Synopsis: attach command does not accept PID in a variable
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu May 04 20:08:02 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: aregmi@gmail.com
>Release: 6.3.0.0-1.96rh
>Organization:
>Environment:
Red Hat Linux
>Description:
attch does not accept a PID that is stored in a variable. For example,
(gdb) set $pid = 12345
(gdb) attach $pid
Illegal process -id:$PID
but instead if I just do
(gdb) attach 12345
it just works fine.
If there is a concern about why do we need to have the pid in a variable, then the reason is gdb can be used for automated testing for gnu based application and when there is a need to test some initialization behavior the application needs to be killed and restarted again through gdb scripts. I would be able to do every thing I need to automated testing if I could use a variable with attach command.
>How-To-Repeat:
I have explained it in decription.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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