Workaround gdbserver<7.7 for setfs
authorJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 15:13:12 +0000 (17:13 +0200)
committerJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 15:18:21 +0000 (17:18 +0200)
commit319cb5d0cf7ba3bc0e77ab420cfcf75568d722b4
tree0d71d99fe17d59b2bd9535b631c7fd538124f819
parent927f2d25ef9d9dc35d6a4061d5504b0fc928f057
Workaround gdbserver<7.7 for setfs

With current FSF GDB HEAD and old FSF gdbserver I expected I could do:
gdb -ex 'file target:/root/redhat/threadit' -ex 'target remote :1234'
(supplying that unsupported qXfer:exec-file:read by "file")
But that does not work because:
Sending packet: $vFile:setfs:0#bf...Packet received: OK
Packet vFile:setfs (hostio-setfs) is supported
...
Sending packet: $vFile:setfs:104#24...Packet received: OK
"target:/root/redhat/threadit": could not open as an executable file: Invalid argument

GDB documentation says:
The valid responses to Host I/O packets are:
An empty response indicates that this operation is not recognized.

This "empty response" vs. "OK" was a bug in gdbserver < 7.7.  It was fixed by:
commit e7f0d979dd5cc4f8b658df892e93db69d6d660b7
Author: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 10 21:59:20 2013 +0800
    Fix a bug in matching notifications.
Message-ID: <1386684626-11415-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com>
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00373.html
2013-12-10  Yao Qi  <yao@codesourcery.com>
* notif.c (handle_notif_ack): Return 0 if no notification
matches.

with unpatched old FSF gdbserver and patched FSF GDB HEAD:
gdb -ex 'file target:/root/redhat/threadit' -ex 'target remote :1234'
Sending packet: $vFile:setfs:0#bf...Packet received: OK
Packet vFile:setfs (hostio-setfs) is NOT supported
...
(gdb) info sharedlibrary
From                To                  Syms Read   Shared Object Library
0x00007ffff7ddbae0  0x00007ffff7df627a  Yes (*)     target:/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0x00007ffff7bc48a0  0x00007ffff7bcf514  Yes (*)     target:/lib64/libpthread.so.0

gdb/ChangeLog
2016-04-06  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

* remote.c (struct remote_state): New field unknown_v_replies_ok.
(packet_config_support): Read it.
(remote_start_remote): Set it.
gdb/ChangeLog
gdb/remote.c