Re: Debugging threaded processes -- ptrace proposal

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:37:47PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> > 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.

That would be fantastic.  I hope you can eventually make that version of
the diff available under a license compatible with either GPLv2 or a
BSD-style license, just to clear up any ambiguity.

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Thor Lancelot Simon                                    
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