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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:51:47 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org, garyj@frt.dec.com
Subject:   Re: 2.2-GAMMA (latest) page fault while in kernel mode
Message-ID:  <199703121351.AAA31855@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>this may well be. I know I changed it to set the prompt to "(kgdb)" if
>-k was specified, but I'm pretty sure that the hack to check for
>argv[0]==kgdb was left out of 4.16. This would be trivial to put back
>in, if it's considered worthwhile. If this is done then the Makefile
>should also delete any kgdb that's present and make it a link to gdb
>(if it doesn't do that already. I don't have FreeBSD box here to check).

gdb hasn't been linked to kgdb since prehistoric times, if ever.
History begins almost 3 years ago with rev.1.1 of gdb/gdb/Makefile
on 1994/06/10.  There seem to be no links in gdb's Attics either.
It's hard to tell, because grep gives about 500 useless hits on
kgdb in spammed log messages.

Bruce


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