Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:34:17 -1000 (HST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> 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: <20080312123331.T1091@desktop> In-Reply-To: <B7761C64-68C9-4BF7-9E06-B200244B7EAC@mac.com> References: <200803120949.m2C9ndTW031022@repoman.freebsd.org> <34B0E2E4-4F7F-4A0B-97DD-2D69DCC612AD@mac.com> <20080312115424.U1091@desktop> <B7761C64-68C9-4BF7-9E06-B200244B7EAC@mac.com>
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > 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, Oh excellent point. I'll restore that. I can move the kse.h file from the Attic into libthread_db. I hadn't deleted the library or the thread_db yet incase something like this came up. Thanks, Jeff > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > xcllnt@mac.com >
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