[PATCH weston] weston: add wait-for-debugger option

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 08:18:35 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 06:31:28 +0000
"Ray, Ian (GE Healthcare)" <ian.ray at ge.com> wrote:

> On 01/11/2017, 16.24, "wayland-devel on behalf of Pekka Paalanen" <wayland-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org on behalf of ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
> > 
> > When you need to start Weston via weston-launch, systemd unit, or any
> > other runner, it is annoying to try to get in with a debugger,
> > especially if the thing you are interested in happens at start-up. To
> > make it easy, a new option is introduced.
> > 
> > The new option, implemented both as a command line option and a
> > weston.ini option, raises SIGSTOP early in the start-up, before the
> > weston_compositor has been created. This allows one to attach a debugger
> > at a known point in execution, and resume execution with SIGCONT.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ian Ray <ian.ray at ge.com>

Pushed:
   3baf9ce7..1a2adfed  master -> master


Thanks,
pq
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