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Re: RFA: clean up logic in linux_child_wait
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:15:24PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > > GDB still uses linux-thread.c on the S/390.
> >
> > It shouldn't.
> >
> > >From the current sources I see:
> > NATDEPFILES= infptrace.o solib.o inftarg.o fork-child.o corelow.o s390-nat.o linux-thread.o core-aout.o core-regset.o
> > # post 5.0 natdepfiles.
> > NATDEPFILES+= thread-db.o lin-lwp.o proc-service.o
> >
> > i.e. it's actually using _both_. What dies horribly if you kill
> > linux-thread.o? That module is pretty severely deprecated.
>
>
> Well, the only thing that dies horribly is the three testsuite
> failures I was trying to resolve.
>
> Do you want my job?
Sorry for my tone there.
On Oct. 14, Mark Kettenis checked in a patch that was intended to make
all Linux targets use lin-lwp instead of linux-thread. The fact that
S/390 still was afterwards was probably just an oversight; S/390 now
contains the only reference to that file out of any port.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer