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-rw-r--r--gdb/gdbserver/gdbserver.113
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
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--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-02-15 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
+
+ * gdbserver/gdbserver.1: Document --attach.
+
2002-02-15 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
* arm-tdep.h (struct gdbarch_tdep): Add fields for breakpoint
diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/gdbserver.1 b/gdb/gdbserver/gdbserver.1
index 24e78ea..846634b 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/gdbserver.1
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ gdbserver \- Remote Server for the GNU Debugger
.RB tty
.RB prog
.RB "[\|" args... "\|]"
+.PP
+.B gdbserver
+.RB tty
+.B --attach
+.RB PID
.ad b
.SH DESCRIPTION
GDBSERVER is a program that allows you to run GDB on a different machine
@@ -50,6 +55,14 @@ GDBs `target remote' command, which will be described shortly. Note that if
you chose a port number that conflicts with another service, gdbserver will
print an error message and exit.
+On some targets, gdbserver can also attach to running programs.
+This is accomplished via the --attach argument. The syntax is:
+
+ target> gdbserver COMM --attach PID
+
+PID is the process ID of a currently running process. It isn't
+necessary to point gdbserver at a binary for the running process.
+
Usage (host side):
You need an unstripped copy of the target program on your host system, since