Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:57:31 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile src/lib/libthread_db Makefile Message-ID: <B7761C64-68C9-4BF7-9E06-B200244B7EAC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20080312115424.U1091@desktop> References: <200803120949.m2C9ndTW031022@repoman.freebsd.org> <34B0E2E4-4F7F-4A0B-97DD-2D69DCC612AD@mac.com> <20080312115424.U1091@desktop>
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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
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