You rock! Were there kernel diffs for NetBSD 5 hanging around somewhere?
On Mon Apr 19 2010 at 15:09:44 -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > I just submitted the GDB changes in the form of a proposed fix to > bin/30756. > > paul > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thor Lancelot Simon [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:45 PM > > To: Paul Koning > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Debugging threaded processes -- ptrace proposal > > > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:37:47PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:02:02PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It's probably not all that big a job to backport my change to > GDB > > > > 6.x. > > > > > For that matter, anyone else can do that once I contribute the > > > change > > > > to > > > > > the current GDB. > > > > > > > > Actually, there's another problem. If you contribute copyright in > > > this > > > > change to FSF, and that's the only way you're going to distribute > > it, > > > > it > > > > will end up available under GPLv3 only and thus unuseful for > > backport > > > > to > > > > the GPLv2 GDB in NetBSD. :-/ > > > > > > Oops. You're right. > > > > > > It looks like the backport is pretty straightforward. I'll take a > > look > > > at the current GDB that NetBSD is using. I could post the diffs > > along > > > with the kernel proposal. > > > > That would be fantastic. I hope you can eventually make that version > > of > > the diff available under a license compatible with either GPLv2 or a > > BSD-style license, just to clear up any ambiguity. > > > > -- > > Thor Lancelot Simon [email protected] > > "All of my opinions are consistent, but I cannot present them all > > at once." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On The Social Contract
