[lldb-dev] difference between "platform process attach|launch" and "process attach|launch"

[Oleksiy Vyalov]

Thank you for quick response!

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 26, 2015, at 3:28 PM, Oleksiy Vyalov <ovyalov at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to make TestProcessAttach to pass in case of remote platform.
> I see a few problems here:
> >       • lldbtest.spawnSubprocess should spawn a new process remotely
> (e.g., using A packet) when remote_platform is presented.
> >       • It seems "process attach" doesn't know about selected platform
> and tries to find a local process to attach - either by pid or name (I
> don't see qLaunchGDBServer requests in platform's gdb-remote logs).
> > The main question for me here - is it expected behavior that "process
> attach|launch" always work with local processes only regardless of selected
> platform? Or if it's not the case should we delegate Process::Attach call
> to Platform::Attach and Process::Launch to Platform::ProcessLaunch?
> > Or as minimal workaround make TestProcessAttach to use "platform process
> attach" command instead?
>
>
> Yes, use the "platform process attach" command, or better yet add new API
> to SBPlatform:


>     SBProcess
>     SBPlatform::Launch (SBLaunchInfo &launch_info, SBError& error);
>
>     SBProcess
>     SBPlatform::Attach (SBAttachInfo &attach_info, SBError& error);
>
>
If it's okay I'd rather make tests to use "platform process attach/launch"
commands for verification purposes and combination of
SBPlatform::Launch/SBPlatform::Kill
to start/stop any process on target.


>
> Then we can use this API to do the launching/attaching via the SBPlatform
> object we already have stored.
>
> Greg
>
>


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Oleksiy Vyalov | Software Engineer | ovyalov at google.com
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