Re: ptrace(2) PT_STEP changes and gdb

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:12:31PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> If the goal is to allow older GDB binaries to continue to run, that's
> a different matter.  But in fact such binaries don't function in a
> useful way except with single-threaded applications, so keeping them
> running doesn't seem like a particularly interesting goal.

I would think it is useful enough to be able to chroot(8) into a
netbsd-5 userland and expect it to work. I am also not sure if there are
other users of ptrace(2) that have the same issue. A huge lot of
programs is still single threaded, so it shouldn't be broken without
good reason.

Joerg