From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 21:57:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA203106570A; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:57:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from smtpoutm.mac.com (smtpoutm.mac.com [17.148.16.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C342A8FC25; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:57:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (asmtp007-s [10.150.69.70]) by smtpoutm.mac.com (Xserve/smtpout006/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id m2CLveGI001262; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from macbook-pro.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/asmtp007/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id m2CLvar2014999 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Jeff Roberson In-Reply-To: <20080312115424.U1091@desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:57:31 -0700 References: <200803120949.m2C9ndTW031022@repoman.freebsd.org> <34B0E2E4-4F7F-4A0B-97DD-2D69DCC612AD@mac.com> <20080312115424.U1091@desktop> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile src/lib/libthread_db Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:57:54 -0000 On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >> >> On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:49 AM, Jeff Roberson wrote: >> >>> jeff 2008-03-12 09:49:39 UTC >>> FreeBSD src repository >>> Modified files: >>> lib Makefile >>> lib/libthread_db Makefile >>> Log: >>> - Remove libkse and related support code in libpthread from the >>> build. >>> Don't remove the files yet. Kernel support will be removed >>> shortly. >> >> I think removing support to debug processes that link >> against libkse is premature. You want to keep the >> support for at least a full major release, but ideally >> until the last release branch that supported KSE is >> obsoleted. > > Hey Marcel, > > I thought about that but I'm not sure how it would work. Any > debugging would have to happen on a kernel that supported KSE. That > kernel will have to be 7.x or prior. I was thinking about core files. There's no need for kernel support in that case, but we do need suport in libthread_db in order to extract thread state from the core file. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com