Hello again! On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:26:11PM +0200, I wrote: > Unfortunately no luck so far. wait_for_inferior / handle_inferior_event > (which was used in the old code) is too complex as to be quickly > understandable for me. And I guess I'm estimating correctly that it's > ``simply'' some side-effect of these that the old code works, while the > new doesn't? Perhaps having a look at the logs I appended below some of > you GDB gurus is able to spot the obvious?
Ha, I, myself, am the GDB guru here ;-)! I had a look at the log again, experimented some more, and finally got it going with the following patch. However, I have absolutely no idea whether that is correct in all cases, etc. Should perhaps target_wait (a.k.a. gnu-nat.c's gnu_wait) be doing that? Index: fork-child.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/fork-child.c,v retrieving revision 1.45 diff -u -p -r1.45 fork-child.c --- fork-child.c 22 Sep 2008 15:16:51 -0000 1.45 +++ fork-child.c 11 Oct 2008 17:34:33 -0000 @@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ startup_inferior (int ntraps) have stopped one instruction after execing the shell. Here we must get it up to actual execution of the real program. */ + /* TODO. How to keep this synchronized with gnu-nat.c's own counting? */ if (exec_wrapper) pending_execs++; @@ -439,6 +440,8 @@ startup_inferior (int ntraps) memset (&ws, 0, sizeof (ws)); resume_ptid = target_wait (pid_to_ptid (-1), &ws); + switch_to_thread (resume_ptid); + /* Mark all threads non-executing. */ set_executing (pid_to_ptid (-1), 0); (gdb) r Starting program: /media/data/home/tschwinge/tmp/n1/hurd/ext2fs.static [New Thread 27194.5] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. convert_options (argp=0x813f0bc, parent=0x0, parent_index=0, group=0x81712e8, cvt=0x101fad0) at argp.h:579 579 argp.h: No such file or directory. in argp.h (gdb) bt #0 convert_options (argp=0x813f0bc, parent=0x0, parent_index=0, group=0x81712e8, cvt=0x101fad0) at argp.h:579 #1 0x080b4675 in convert_options (argp=0x101f980, parent=0x0, parent_index=0, group=0x81712e8, cvt=0x101fad0) at argp-parse.c:407 #2 0x080b4834 in __argp_parse (argp=0x101f980, argc=1, argv=0x101fc14, flags=<value optimized out>, end_index=0x0, input=0x101fb3c) at argp-parse.c:435 #3 0x08056dad in diskfs_init_main (startup_argp=0x0, argc=1, argv=0x101fc14, store_parsed=0x8153284, bootstrap=0x101fb8c) at ../../hurd.work/libdiskfs/init-main.c:37 #4 0x0804bd9b in main (argc=1, argv=0x101fc14) at ../../hurd.work/ext2fs/ext2fs.c:172 (gdb) info threads 5 Thread 27194.5 0x080b5a8c in mach_msg_trap () * 4 Thread 27194.4 convert_options (argp=0x813f0bc, parent=0x0, parent_index=0, group=0x81712e8, cvt=0x101fad0) at argp.h:579 As it should be! :-) Regards, Thomas
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