RE: Debugging threaded processes -- ptrace proposal

["Paul Koning" <Paul_Koning%Dell.com@localhost>]

> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:02:02PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> >
> > It's probably not all that big a job to backport my change to GDB
> 6.x.
> > For that matter, anyone else can do that once I contribute the
change
> to
> > the current GDB.
> 
> Actually, there's another problem.  If you contribute copyright in
this
> change to FSF, and that's the only way you're going to distribute it,
> it
> will end up available under GPLv3 only and thus unuseful for backport
> to
> the GPLv2 GDB in NetBSD.  :-/

Oops.  You're right.

It looks like the backport is pretty straightforward.  I'll take a look
at the current GDB that NetBSD is using.  I could post the diffs along
with the kernel proposal.

        paul