[9/9,v2] Announce new container-awareness features for GNU/Linux systems
Commit Message
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.
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
gdb/NEWS | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Comments
> From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
> Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,
> Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:05:42 +0100
>
> 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.
> ---
> gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
> gdb/NEWS | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index b4ce282..ba4fcf3 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@
>
> * 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.
> +
OK.
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@
* 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.
+
* Python Scripting
** gdb.Objfile objects have a new attribute "username",