Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Perform path expansion to lx-symbol's arguments

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2016-06-08 18:28, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> Python doesn't do automatic expansion of paths. In case one passes
> path of the from ~/foo/bar the gdb scripts won't automatically expand
> that and as a result the symbols files won't be loaded. Fix this
> by explicitly expanding all paths which begin with "~"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
> index 9a0f8923f67c..004b0ac7fa72 100644
> --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
> +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ lx-symbols command."""
>              saved_state['breakpoint'].enabled = saved_state['enabled']
>  
>      def invoke(self, arg, from_tty):
> -        self.module_paths = arg.split()
> +        self.module_paths = [os.path.expanduser(p) for p in arg.split()]
>          self.module_paths.append(os.getcwd())
>  
>          # enforce update
> 

Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

Kieran, will you take this, as you are already preparing other patches?

Thanks,
Jan

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