Hi Tim - are you sure that openocd is necessarily fully ready to accept GDB
RSP connections on port 3333 (by default) by the time that this LOG_INFO
message is displayed? If it is then why does the original openocd code
(src/server/server.c:add_connection()) only display "accepting 'gdb'
connections on tcp/3333" later than your LOG_INFO message - and even then I'm
not 100% sure that it actually IS ready to service GDB RSP connections...?
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** [tickets:#147] How to know when OpenOCD is fully ready?**
**Status:** new
**Milestone:** 0.9.0
**Created:** Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:29 PM UTC by Tommy Murphy
**Last Updated:** Mon Sep 11, 2017 04:32 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
Hi there - I searched the existing tickets but didn't see any obvious mention
of this issue.
I cannot see any way to know that OpenOCD is fully initialized and ready to
accept connections - e.g. GDB/MI connections on port 3333 (by default). For
example the GNU ARM Eclipse plugins call OpenOCD with any user specified
command line options as well as -c 'echo "Started by GNU ARM Eclipse"' and then
waits for OpenOCD to output the string "Started by GNU ARM Eclipse" before
starting gdb which will then connect to OpenOCD's GDB/MI socket interface via
target remote ... etc. See
https://github.com/gnuarmeclipse/plug-ins/issues/186#issuecomment-284703073.
Liviu Ionescu (creator of GNU ARM Eclipse) chose this as the only way he could
see to attempt to synchronize OpenOCD with gdb so that gdb was only launched
when OpenOCD was ready. However there is still a race condition here as OpenOCD
processes the echo command before it has fully initialized the target
interface, opened/initialized the GDB/MI socket interface etc. In some cases
OpenOCD may be fuly ready for gdb by the time that gdb connects but if the
OpenOCD startup/init code takes "too long" then it may not and then gdb fails
to connect.
Is there any mechanism whereby a process can know that OpenOCD is "fully ready"
before starting another process such as gdb which will connect to it? Even if
OpenOCD output a simple string indicating that the relevant interface was
initialized and ready for connections would help (e.g. Ready for GDB/MI
connections on port 3333").
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot.
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