Re: python2 and xchat

[Roland McGrath]

[I redirected the CC to bug-hurd, since this is not Debian-related stuff.]

>  I'm also looking for a way to start a translator from gdb or
> at least watch the translator run from the start of main().

Use "settrans -a --pause /node /translator args".  It will print out the
translator's pid and wait for you to hit return before the fsys_startup
will return to the translator.  That is not before main, but should be
pretty soon after.  If your program has a problem in main before it calls
fsys_startup, you may be able to debug it just starting it from gdb without
a proper bootstrap port (i.e. if it has a problem that it hits when you
just run the translator program from the command line as if it were a
normal program, then you can debug that like a normal program).

It might well work to use "settrans -a /node /bin/gdb /translator" too.
But I don't know if anyone has tried that.

It's just occurred to me that a straightforward new settrans option would
provide a good way to debug translators more fully.  We should add an
option to settrans that takes a PID argument in place of the translator
command line, and then sets that task's bootstrap port as it would for the
new task in settrans -a.

This would allow you to start a translator program from gdb in the normal
way, stop it at main (or anywhere before it does task_get_bootstrap_port),
and then do "settrans --active-pid=NNN /node".  When you resume the program
in gdb, it will have a bootstrap port to settrans as it would if settrans
had started it directly.