Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > The rules for a branch are, generally, up to the branch owner.  The
 > only one I'll insist on is that copyright assignments be handled in the
 > same way as for HEAD, which is not a problem here.

You mean if someone else contributes a patch?  My changes are covered by the
assignment that I have already made for GDB.  Apple's changes are presumably
covered similarly.

 >                                                          See:
 > 
 >   http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdbint_15.html#SEC133
 > (which are mostly guidelines rather than rules).  So, you can create a
 > branch if you'd like.

OK.  Thats helpful

 > I took a quick look at the changes, but couldn't make heads or tails
 > out of what was going on.  Also, I think the diff is corrupted; the
 > changes to linux-nat.c cut off in a very strange place in child_wait().

Yes.  It seems to have also corrupted Makefile.in.  Its an ssh problem.  I've
resolved that and attach a new patch which should work hopefully.

 > Maybe when it's been cleaned up a little we can look for a way to do
 > this that doesn't involve pthreads.

Nick