Re: [Cgdb-devel] TGDB architecture

[Bob R. <bo...@br...>]

> > > What is the recovery when gdb goes to debugger heaven ?
> >=20
> > TGDB has no problem when GDB crashes. I think that what you mean here,
> > right?
> >=20
> > Currently, it return TGDB_QUIT to the front end, and then CGDB just
> > shuts down. It appears that CGDB doesn't work properly but thats just
> > what we decided to do for now. The reason is because TGDB just reads a
> > 'EOF' when TGDB dies, and currently it doesn't know if the EOF is
> > because of normal or abnormal termination.
>=20
> Couldn't we check the return val of a waitpid call when we receive the
> EOF?  That's the usual manner to check to see if a program exited
> abnormally.

Yeah, that seems like a good idea. Then I could return things like
TGDB_QUIT_NORMAL and TGDB_QUIT_ABNORMAL with an error code or something.
Unfortunatly, I have a feeling this will be somewhat non-portable. I'll
look into it.

Bob Rossi