There's a buildroot where I want to debug a binary, and I tried to
connect to it from outside, but got very weird errors like
architecture mismatch or protocol errors. At last, after switching on
'--debug' for gdbserver I found a message 'Can't open /proc/pid/'
message and suddenly found that I forgot to mount procfs in my
buildroot.
Make discovering the problem easier by making GDB / GDBserver warn
(even without --debug) if /proc can not be accessed.
Native debugging:
(gdb) start
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x400835: file test.c, line 10.
Starting program: /tmp/test
warning: /proc is not accessible.
GDBserver/remote debugging:
$ ./gdbserver :9999 ./gdbserver
gdbserver: /proc is not accessible.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2018-07-04 Vyacheslav Barinov <v.barinov@samsung.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* linux-nat.c (linux_init_ptrace): Rename to ...
(linux_init_ptrace_procfs): ... this. Call
linux_proc_init_warnings.
(linux_nat_target::post_attach)
(linux_nat_target::post_startup_inferior): Adjust.
* nat/linux-procfs.c (linux_proc_init_warnings): Define function.
* nat/linux-procfs.h (linux_proc_init_warnings): Declare function.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2018-07-04 Vyacheslav Barinov <v.barinov@samsung.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* linux-low.c (initialize_low): Call linux_proc_init_warnings.
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