On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:41:48AM -0800, Andy Zhou wrote: > It is some times useful to leverage the sandbox facility to experiment > and explore the internals of ovs-vswitchd. Since GDB requires console > access for user inputs, this patch launch an xterm for GDB, The main > terminal continue to run the sub-shell as before. Exiting the sub-shell > will also kill the ovs-vswitchd under GDB (but not GDB itself currently) > > Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> > ---- > I have been making similar changes in my private tree for a while. > It may be worth while to upstream it others can benefit as well. > > Instead of launching xterm, we could probably leave the main console > for GDB, and allow user to start another sub-shell in a separate > terminal. However, this won't scale to multiple programs, in case > one wants to debug both ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server.
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev