From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 13:21:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA15295 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA15255 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:21:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA04235; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:21:24 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04557; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:21:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA19391; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:16:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601162116.WAA19391@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kgdb.. To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:16:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9601161808.AA23417@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at Jan 16, 96 07:08:21 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As garyj@frt.dec.com wrote: > > I've wondered myself why it's still in the tree. Seems to me that > `gdb -k' works pretty well. Or does someone know of a reason NOT > to eliminate kgdb ? I'm using gdb -k all days. I've been one of those guys who have been in favour of the old kgdb... Well, i've just checked, Gary: kgdb is no longer in the regular tree: j@uriah 236% ls /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin: as/ CVS/ grep/ man/ sdiff/ awk/ dc/ groff/ mkisofs/ send-pr/ bc/ dialog/ gzip/ patch/ sort/ cc/ diff/ ld/ perl/ tar/ cpio/ diff3/ Makefile ptx/ texinfo/ cvs/ gdb/ Makefile.inc rcs/ yppush/ -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)