[lldb-dev] Host::LaunchProcess vs. ProcessPlugin::DoLaunch

[Zachary Turner]

So one thing I'm still unclear about, is exactly when I will receive a
launch request through the Process plugin versus when I will receive the
request directly through the Host without first going through the Process
plugin.


On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:

> Thanks.  So what I take away from this is that they basically do the same
> thing, and Process::DoLaunch() can simply call Host::LaunchProcess.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <mailing at xenonium.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Here is a discussion that may give you some answers:
>>
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.debugging.lldb.devel/2805
>>
>> For the record, I wrote a process plugin, and end-up not having to
>> implements the Process:DoLaunch method at all.
>> On OS X, all processes are launched by the platform which then call
>> DoAttach. So the Process::DoLaunch code path is never use.
>>
>> Le 9 août 2014 à 02:14, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> a écrit :
>>
>> > Why are there different code paths for launching a process through
>> these two methods?  Shouldn't there just be one codepath for launching a
>> process?
>> >
>> > I've implemented a very primitive process launch for Windows in
>> ProcessPluginWindows::DoLaunch, but now I'm running into cases where tests
>> are failing because Host::LaunchProcess isn't implemented yet on Windows.
>>  What do I need to understand about the differences between these two
>> codepaths to make sure I implement the two correctly?  And is there perhaps
>> a way to refactor some of this code so that all of the process-spawning
>> code lives in the same place, and the launch args are flexible enough to
>> support all of the different use cases?
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