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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:33:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux: Use kill_lwp/tkill instead of kill when killing a, process
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:45:00 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Another thing I noticed by inspection while fixing the
> recent gdbserver kill crash.
> 
> Anyone know a reason we use plain "kill" here, instead
> of tkill like everywhere else?

I do not.
Just it is the general GDB rule of "If it ain't broken, don't fix it".
There are various old and patched kernels out there.


Jan