Re: system/3922: gdb --pid is totally broken in OpenBSD 3.6

[Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>]

The following reply was made to PR system/3922; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
To: Frank Denis <j@pureftpd.org>
Cc: gnats@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: system/3922: gdb --pid is totally broken in OpenBSD 3.6
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:49:55 +0200 (CEST)

 On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Frank Denis wrote:
 
 > >Synopsis:       gdb --pid is totally broken in OpenBSD 3.6
 
 When attaching to a process, the executable should be specified:
 
 [otto@pepper:28]$ gdb --pid 31902 a.out
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 This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd3.6"...
 Attaching to program: /home/otto/a.out, process 31902
 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1...done.
 Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1
 Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done.
 Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so
 0x0fd388c5 in nanosleep () from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1
 (gdb) where
 #0  0x0fd388c5 in nanosleep () from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1
 #1  0x0fd3d044 in sleep () from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.1
 #2  0x1c00057a in main () at x.c:4
 (gdb)
 
 gdb a.out 31902 works as well.
 
 	-Otto