Re: RFA: clean up logic in linux_child_wait

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:15:24PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > > GDB still uses linux-thread.c on the S/390.
> > 
> > It shouldn't.
> > 
> > >From the current sources I see:
> > NATDEPFILES= infptrace.o solib.o inftarg.o fork-child.o corelow.o s390-nat.o linux-thread.o core-aout.o  core-regset.o
> > # post 5.0 natdepfiles.
> > NATDEPFILES+= thread-db.o lin-lwp.o proc-service.o 
> > 
> > i.e. it's actually using _both_.  What dies horribly if you kill
> > linux-thread.o?  That module is pretty severely deprecated.
> 
> 
> Well, the only thing that dies horribly is the three testsuite
> failures I was trying to resolve.
> 
> Do you want my job?

Sorry for my tone there.

On Oct. 14, Mark Kettenis checked in a patch that was intended to make
all Linux targets use lin-lwp instead of linux-thread.  The fact that
S/390 still was afterwards was probably just an oversight; S/390 now
contains the only reference to that file out of any port.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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