From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27037 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2004 20:47:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27024 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2004 20:47:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Sep 2004 20:47:43 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8EKlcad003671 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:47:38 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8EKlbr16241; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:47:37 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C812A28D2; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:45:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41475869.2090003@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:47:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040831 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Chastain Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [proposal] gdb/testsuite/gdb.signal References: <412BE2CE.nail3MC113MZU@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <412BE2CE.nail3MC113MZU@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00108.txt.bz2 > Oh dear, Andrew's already opposed to this idea. :-/ > > I would like to move the signals tests to a new directory, gdb.signal. > My reasons: > > . signal handling is different from basic functionality: > it interacts with the kernel in new ways that "basic" gdb does not > > . i'm not qualified to maintain advanced signals tests, > so i would like to segregate the signals tests to make it easier > to delegate them to a different maintainer You're more than qualified, I don't see a specialist being helpful here - it's the wrong skilk (and we've too many specialist already :-). I'd just gather up the relevant information and assess it, drawing on the knowledge of GDB's community when needed. Andrew > So I'm making a proposal: > > (1) Setup gdb.signals and mechanically move the signals files there. > I would do this part, to make sure the mechanical move went okay. > > (2) Seek a new senior maintainer for the new gdb.signal. I would keep > the maintainership until someone volunteers and is approved. > > Comments? > > I'm particularly interested in whether Andrew, who is writing much > of the code, is strongly opposed, or only mildly opposed.