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Re: What has replaced fork to launch external commands?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker at bennee dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:00:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: What has replaced fork to launch external commands?
- References: <1045500565.2505.20.camel@cambridge.braddahead>
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:49:25PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote:
> I thought I would give the latest gdb(5.3) a spin and see if it could
> interface with ST's gdb server to talk to my ICE. The original gcc is
> dated 20020211.
>
> Happy that it all built ok for my target system it fell over on startup
> because the "fork" command used to lauch the gdbserver seems to of
> disapeared:
> fork shlaunch -si $arg0 -gdbserv host=$arg1 -cid0 host=$arg1
> noposixconsole
>
> Is there a drop-in replacement? I greped the Changelogs but all the fork
> references seem to be talking about debugged processes rather than
> commands.
Where'd you get this 20020211 GDB? I don't remember GDB ever having a
"fork" command.
Meanwhile you can probably roughly use "shell" if I'm understanding
what you're doing.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer