On 04/13/2015 08:09 PM, Andy Zhou wrote: >> My use case for trying it was actually different. I had written code >> that was crashing, and I found this a bit more convenient than getting a >> bt from a core dump. >> >> Indeed, I could have just attached to it after it started running. > > May be we can add another flag, say '-r' that will do 'exec run". If > you agree, I can send a separate patch to add those flags.
That sounds great to me. :-) >> It's really a question of which use case has to do an extra step. If >> you wanted to set a breakpoint before it starts, you could kill it >> quickly with Ctrl-C, set your breakpoints, and 'run' again. That seems >> less clean though, I suppose. >> > > Yes, I agree it is not as clean, for example, the pid will change > and the connection socket will be reset. On the other hand, there is > nothing I can think of will break, so this use case should be valid > for the time being. On the third hand, if we end up with another > flag, there is no reason to encourage this usage. Yep, good points. I think the '-r' option is a great way to satisfy both use cases. Thanks, -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
