GDB: ``set exec-wrapper'' vs. gnu-nat.c's pending_execs counting.

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+<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2008-10/msg00045.html>:
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+GNU GDB's Ulrich Weigand:
+
+> Hmm.  It would appear that "set exec-wrapper" is currently broken with
+> the gnu-nat.c target, right?
+
+GNU GDB's Pedro Alves:
+
+>> Yeah, it appears so.  Don't know if it's possible to get rid of the local
+>> pending execs handling in gnu-nat.c.  An alternative would be to make
+>> pending_execs a property of inferior.h:`struct inferior' instead of of
+>> gnu-nat.c:`struct inf'.