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authorDon Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>2015-05-12 09:52:47 -0700
committerDon Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>2015-05-12 09:52:47 -0700
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Extended-remote fork event docs
This patch contains the accumulated documentation changes for the rest of the extended-remote follow fork patchset. gdb/ChangeLog: * NEWS: Announce fork support in the RSP and support for fork debugging in extended mode. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (Forks): Note that fork debugging is supported in extended mode. (Remote Configuration): Add fork event features to table of packet settings. (Stop Reply Packets): Add fork events to list of stop reasons. (General Query Packets): Add fork events to tables of 'gdbfeatures' and 'stub features' supported in the qSupported packet, as well as to the list containing stub feature details.
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@@ -128,6 +128,30 @@ qXfer:exec-file:read
Return the full absolute name of the file that was executed to
create a process running on the remote system.
+fork stop reason
+ Indicates that a fork system call was executed.
+
+vfork stop reason
+ Indicates that a vfork system call was executed.
+
+vforkdone stop reason
+ Indicates that a vfork child of the specified process has executed
+ an exec or exit, allowing the vfork parent to resume execution.
+
+fork-events and vfork-events features in qSupported
+ The qSupported packet allows GDB to request support for fork and
+ vfork events using new 'gdbfeatures' fork-events and vfork-events,
+ and the qSupported response can contain the corresponding
+ 'stubfeatures'. Set and show commands can be used to display
+ whether these features are enabled.
+
+* Extended-remote fork events
+
+ ** GDB now has support for fork events on extended-remote Linux
+ targets. For targets with Linux kernels 2.5.60 and later, this
+ enables follow-fork-mode and detach-on-fork for both fork and
+ vfork, as well as fork and vfork catchpoints.
+
* The info record command now shows the recording format and the
branch tracing configuration for the current thread when using
the btrace record target.