cvs commit: src/lib Makefile src/lib/libthread_db Makefile

[Marcel Moolenaar]

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,

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Marcel Moolenaar
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