On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:52 +1030, Craig Keogh wrote:
> I want to debug a gvfs backend, sftp in particular. How is it done?
> 
> I start gvfsd -r, to replace the system-installed gvfsd. I'm able to set
> breakpoints within gvfsd, but the sftp backend seems to be run from a
> new spawned process.
> 
> Whilst I can attach to this new sftp backend process (and that works
> fine) I want to debug the startup. How is that done?

Just kill your gvfsd-sftp and start a new one, with something like:

gvfsd-sftp host=foo

Of course, this doesn't allow you to handle authentication. That gets a
little trickier. You can try using gvfs-mount and then attach to the
gvfsd-sftp process.

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