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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: [commit] Fix inf-ttrace.c
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:22:44PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I'm not sure what happened here, but while checking out some other
> HP-UX related changes, I discovered that gdb didn't work properly on
> HP-UX anymore.  Turns out GDB doesn't really like
> TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD events.  Either this broke somewhere along the
> line, or I accidentally comitted a inf-ttrace.c that didn't work.
> Since the exec following stuff needs some major surgery anyway, I'll
> commit this now, such that we have at least working HP-UX support in
> the next release.

It definitely isn't something that broke along the line - I didn't
contribute exec support for GNU/Linux because of how badly it works in
GDB.

We just don't have the user interface for it, either.  I've been
thinking about this on and off, but no inspiration yet...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC