Re: proc_service.h as an installed header

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 07/06/2016 11:06 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> glibc has received a request to turn proc_service.h into an
>> installed header:
>>
>>   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20311
>>
>> The request seems reasonable.
>>
>> The only question is who owns this API.  glibc is just a consumer
>> here, and the traditional provider is GDB, so I GDB would be the
>> natural
> 
> I always thought of it as part of libthread_db's API.
> 
> i.e., thread_db.h is the debugger->libthread_db API,
> and proc_service.h is the libthread_db->debugger API.
> 
> It seems like it'd be easier to provide it from glibc.  If GDB
> provided it glibc would have to carry its own copy anyway (I'm
> presuming you don't want to introduce a build dependency on GDB)

Agreed.  (I've followed up on the glibc bug.)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves