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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:51:25 +0200
From: Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <seb@struchtrup.com>
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Subject: kgdb doesn't recognize -q and -fullname (needed for ddd)
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>Number:         78031
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       kgdb doesn't recognize -q and -fullname (needed for ddd)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 24 17:00:27 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Wed Mar 02 18:41:24 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Wed Mar 02 18:41:24 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD s14702878.sun.ac.za 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #29: Tue Feb 22 15:37:51 SAST 2005 seb@s14702878.sun.ac.za:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/notebook i386

>Description:
Developers Handbook Section 11.3 (Debugging a Crash Dump with DDD)) says to use `ddd -k` to debug kernels.
This will invoke `gdb -k`. For 5.3 and later, kgdb is used for kernel debugging.

Using `ddd --debugger kgdb` will pass `-q -fullname` as an option to kgdb, but
kgdb doesn't handle them at the moment and thus startup will fail.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

  pass -f / -fullname to the GDB core (according to marcel@)
  implement -q / -quiet in some way to skip copyright messages etc.
 

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: marcel 
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 2 18:28:12 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Options added to kgdb(1). Awaits MFC, which needs re@ approval. 
Thanks! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=78031 
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