RE: Debugging threaded processes -- ptrace proposal

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

I just submitted the GDB changes in the form of a proposed fix to
bin/30756.

        paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thor Lancelot Simon [mailto:tls%panix.com@localhost]
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:45 PM
> To: Paul Koning
> Cc: tech-kern%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: Debugging threaded processes -- ptrace proposal
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Thor Lancelot Simon                                  
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