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On 5/29/10 12:53 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 2010/5/29 "C. Bergström"<cbergstrom@pathscale.com>:
>>
>> PathScale is slowly open sourcing and porting some of our core software
[...]
>> Questions/comments - Say hi on #pathscale - irc.freenode.net or email me
>> directly
>
> Hi Christopher,
>      Have you spoken with Doug Rabson about this? He has work which is
> to going to meet a similar end as PathDB could provide.


yes, Doug has a habit of going quiet for a while and coming back with 
a fully working piece of amazing work so I'm taking the fact that I 
haven't heard a peep out of him for  a while as a good sign.
It may be too late but it would be worth talking with him.


>      Also, it might be a good time and a good idea to consider going to
> one of the BSD conferences and presenting PathDB as a useful
> alternative to gdb (especially if folks provide some degree of