Re: [commit] Last major piece of fork tracing - vfork/exec

Andrew Cagney
2003-08-22T18:40:56Z

> I hate to cause trouble here. We're all on edge with the release
> coming up (and this is also end-of-quarter for the red hat people).
> But I have to speak up.

(I never no when EOQ is so thanks for the heads up).

> The release is already being held up for the gdb.c++ -> gdb.cp
> renaming. The one-week comment period for that change ends this
> afternoon. Then I can commit this change to gdb HEAD. Then it
> needs a shakedown period in gdb HEAD. Then I can commit the
> change to gdb gdb_6_0-branch, and it will need a shakedown period
> there as well.

The shake down will be telling people to do a cvs update -d
src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp.

> Andrew, I'm frankly amazed that you decided this feature was
> release critical, but that's okay. My role is to get it into
> the branch expeditiously.

The release isn't been held up for the gdb.cp rename, it happened to
slip nicely into the schedule. If it's not done by Sunday, I can easily
do it myself. The bottom line is that if it screws up, and the
testsuite is a brick, no one will notice. GDB on GNU/Linux will still work.

On the other hand, if vfork/exec breaks, GNU/Linux breaks and everyone
notices.

Andrew